Gone With the Glory - The Civil War in Cinema

Informationen zum Autor Brian Steel Wills is director of the Center for the Study of the Civil War Era at Kennesaw State University. He is the author of The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forrest, The War Hits Home: The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia, and No Ordinary College: A History of the University of Virginia at Wise. Klappentext From Birth of a Nation to Cold Mountain, Hollywood has used the Civil War to create compelling cinema with each generation resolving the tug of war between entertainment value and historical accuracy differently. Wills looks at the portrayal of the war in film, explores their accuracy, how the films influenced each other, and how they reflect America's changing understandings of the conflict and of the nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Hollywood's Civil WarChapter 1: The Birth of Civil War CinemaChapter 2: Victory on the RailsChapter 3: The Romantic Era of Civil War CinemaChapter 4: The House DividedChapter 5: The Personal WarChapter 6: War without BoundariesChapter 7: The West's Civil WarChapter 8: Shiloh's Bloody HarvestChapter 9: Confederates Raid VermontChapter 10: The Music Teacher Raids MississippiChapter 11: A Stomach for WarChapter 12: Enough Glory for AllChapter 13: The Angels of GettysburgChapter 14: The Plight of the Prisoners of WarChapter 15: The War and the WavesConclusion: Screening the "Real War"Appendix A: FilmographyAppendix B: Actors Who Wore the BlueAppendix C: Actors Who Wore the GrayAppendix D: The Best and Worse of Civil War CinemaBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Brian Steel Wills, Wills Brian Steel
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.10.2011
• EAN: 9780742545267
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-4526-7
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, History of the Americas, Film history, theory & criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film Theory & Criticism