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The American Civil War on Film and TV
Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color
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2017
Summary
Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes for cinematic narratives of morality, race, gender, and nation, as well as serving as historical education for a century of Americans.
In The American Civil War on Film and TV: Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color, Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller bring together nineteen essays by a diverse array of scholars across the disciplines to explore these issues. The essays included here span a wide range of films, from the silent era to the present day, including Buster Keaton’s The General (1926), Red Badge of Courage (1951), Glory (1989), Gettysburg (1993), and Cold Mountain (2003), as well as television mini-series The Blue and The Gray (1982) and John Jakes’ acclaimed North and South trilogy (1985-86).
As an accessible volume to dedicated to a critical conversation about the Civil War on film, The American Civil War on Film and TV will appeal to not only to scholars of film, military history, American history, and cultural history, but to fans of war films and period films, as well.
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Edition
1/2017
Copyright year
2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-6688-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-6689-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
271
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 America’s Civil War No access Pages 1 - 18
2 When Silence was Golden No access Pages 19 - 32
3 Not a Lost Cause No access Pages 33 - 44
4 Cornering the Last Rebel No access Pages 45 - 56
5 Silent Comedy as Social Criticism No access Pages 57 - 68
6 Screen Historian or American Myth Maker? No access Pages 69 - 80
7 The North, The South; Black Folks, White Folks No access Pages 81 - 92
8 Hidden Behind Hoopskirts No access Pages 93 - 104
9 The Golden Age of Hollywood’s Belles No access Pages 105 - 118
10 Gender, War and Sisterhood in the Novel and Film Versions of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women No access Pages 119 - 132
11 Literary and Cinematic Canon Fire No access Pages 133 - 150
12 Adapting The Killer Angels No access Pages 151 - 168
13 Whiteness, Whiteness Everywhere No access Pages 169 - 182
14 (Re-)Visionist History in Sergio Leone’s (De-)Mythologized Old West No access Pages 183 - 194
15 The Civil War as TV Miniseries No access Pages 195 - 206
16 Documentary as an Art Form No access Pages 207 - 216
