The south of the United States plays a decisive role in the literary work of the American playwright Tennessee Williams. This universe, which is centered in the main city of Louisiana, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Delta, has an important cinematographic representation thanks to the adaptations of the main works of the writer, carried out between 1950 and 1968. Thus, the southern space has a notable prominence in these films, and in some cases acquires the nature of character, due to its relevant narrative weight and to the constant evocation that characters make of it. With the objectives of to emphasise the Old South as poetic and romantic in the classic American cinema, to reflect on the relationship of Williams with their place of or...