Editing Cajuns (section)

==In media==
[[File:Evangeline - Saint Martinville.jpg|thumb|upright|A statue of Evangeline—fictional heroine of the poem ''[[Evangeline]]'' by Longfellow—at [[St. Martinville, Louisiana]]. The statue was donated by actress [[Dolores del Río]], who also posed for it. In a 1929 silent film by director [[Edwin Carewe]], del Rio portrayed Evangeline.]]
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===Documentary films===
* ''Zachary Richard, Cajun Heart'' (2016, color) director: [[Phil Comeau]] with [[Zachary Richard]]
* ''Spend It All'' (1971, color) director: [[Les Blank]] with Skip Gerson
* ''The Good Times Are Killing Me'' (1975, color)<ref>[http://mediaburn.org/video/the-good-times-are-killing-me-3/ The Good Times Are Killing Me - Media Burn Archive]</ref>
* ''Hot Pepper'' (1975, color) director: Les Blank
* ''J'ai été au bal'' (English: ''I Went to the Dance''), by Les Blank, Chris Strachwitz & [[Maureen Gosling]]; narrated by [[Barry Jean Ancelet]] and [[Michael Doucet]] (Brazos Films). Louisiana French and Zydeco music documentary.
* ''[[Louisiana Story]]'' (1948, black and white) director: [[Robert Flaherty]]. Further addressed in 2006 documentary Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story, by a group at [[Louisiana State University]].

===Film===
* ''[[Southern Comfort (1981 film)|Southern Comfort]]'' (1981), directed by [[Walter Hill (filmmaker)|Walter Hill]], starring [[Powers Boothe]]
* ''[[The Big Easy (film)|The Big Easy]]'' (1986), directed by Jim McBride, starring [[Dennis Quaid]]
* ''[[Belizaire the Cajun]]'' (1986), directed by [[Glen Pitre]], starring [[Armand Assante]]
* ''[[Passion Fish]]'' (1992), directed by [[John Sayles]], starring [[Mary McDonnell]]
* ''[[Little Chenier]]'' (2006), directed by [[Bethany Ashton]], starring [[Johnathon Schaech]]
* ''[[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)|The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]'' (2008), directed by [[David Fincher]], starring [[Brad Pitt]]
* ''[[In the Electric Mist]]'' (2009), directed by [[Bertrand Tavernier]], starring [[Tommy Lee Jones]]
* ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' (2009), the Disney version
* ''[[Avenging force]]'' (1986), directed by [[Sam Firstenberg]], starring [[Michael Dudikoff]]

===Literature===
* ''[[Evangeline]]'' (1847), an epic poem by [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], is loosely based on the events surrounding the 1755 deportation. It became an American classic and contributed to a rebirth of Acadian identity in both Maritime Canada and in Louisiana.
* ''Bayou Folk'' (1894) by [[Kate Chopin]], who wrote about the Creoles and Cajuns (Acadiens)
* Several volumes on Cajun culture and history by children's book author [[Mary Alice Fontenot]]
* ''Acadian Waltz'' (2013) by [[Alexandrea Weis]], who wrote about the Cajun culture
* ''Acadie, Then and Now'' (2014) by Warren Perrin, Mary Perrin, Phil Comeau, a collection of 65 articles on Cajun/Acadian culture and history
* The fictional [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] character [[Gambit (Marvel Comics)|Gambit]] is a mutant of Cajun descent

===Songs===
* "[[Jambalaya (On the Bayou)]]" (1952) is credited to [[Hank Williams]], about life, parties, and stereotypical Cajun cuisine. The music is taken from the Cajun song "Grand Texas".
* "[[Acadian Driftwood]]" (1975), a popular song based on the Acadian Expulsion by [[Robbie Robertson]], appeared on [[The Band]]'s album ''[[Northern Lights – Southern Cross]]''.
* "[[Louisiana Man]]" (1961), an autobiographical song written and performed by [[Doug Kershaw]], became the first song broadcast back to Earth from the Moon by the astronauts of [[Apollo 12]]. Over the years, the song has been recorded by hundreds of artists, sold millions of copies and become a standard of modern Cajun music.
* "Jolie Blonde" (or "Jolie Blon", "Jole Blon", or "Joli Blon"), with lyrics and song history of the traditional Cajun waltz, is often referred to as "the Cajun national anthem".
* "[[Mississippi Queen]]" is a 1970 song by [[Mountain (band)|Mountain]] about a Cajun woman visiting from Mississippi.
* "Elvis Presley Was a Cajun" is a song from the 1991 Irish film ''[[The Commitments (film)|The Commitments]]'', in which a two-piece band plays along to the lyric "Elvis was a Cajun, he had a Cajun heart."
* "[[Amos Moses]]" (1970), a song by [[Jerry Reed]], is about a fictional one-armed alligator-hunting Cajun man.
* "Perfect Day", a song by [[Lady Antebellum]], starts off with the singer seeing "a Cajun man with a red guitar singing on the side of the street" and throwing "a handful of change in his beat-up case and [saying] play me a country beat".
* "Cajun Hell", a song by American thrash metal band [[Exodus (band)|Exodus]], from 1989 album ''[[Fabulous Disaster]]''.
* "Queen Of New Orleans", a song by [[Jon Bon Jovi]] from the 1997 album [[Destination Anywhere (Jon Bon Jovi album)|Destination Anywhere]]
* "[[Adalida]]" by [[George Strait]] is a song about a "pretty little Cajun queen".
* "[[Pogue Mahone#Standard edition|Amadie]]", a song by [[The Pogues]] written by the band's early member [[The Pogues#Members|Andrew Ranken]] from their 1996 album ''[[Pogue Mahone]]'' which is a tribute to American musician Amadie Adouin aka [[Amédé Ardoin]] who popularised both [[Creole music]] and [[Cajun music]] in the early 20th century.