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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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The American Civil War on Film and TV
Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color
About this book
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.
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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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Americaâs Civil War
- 2 When Silence was Golden
- 3 Not a Lost Cause
- 4 Cornering the Last Rebel
- 5 Silent Comedy as Social Criticism
- 6 Screen Historian or American Myth Maker?
- 7 The North, The South; Black Folks, White Folks
- 8 Hidden Behind Hoopskirts
- 9 The Golden Age of Hollywoodâs Belles
- 10 Gender, War and Sisterhood in the Novel and Film Versions of Louisa May Alcottâs Little Women
- 11 Literary and Cinematic Canon Fire
- 12 Adapting The Killer Angels
- 13 Whiteness, Whiteness Everywhere
- 14 (Re-)Visionist History in Sergio Leoneâs (De-)Mythologized Old West
- 15 The Civil War as TV Miniseries
- 16 Documentary as an Art Form
- 17 Strange Homecomings
- 18 Featuring Atrocity & H8ful Heritage
- 19 Brother Against . . . Monster
- Index
- About the Editors
- Notes on Contributors