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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 to explore issues of morality, race, gender, nation, and history in films and television shows featuring the American Civil War.
List of contents
Introduction: "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory . . . ": The Civil War in the American Popular Imagination
Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller
1. America's Civil War: Hollywood vs. History
Earl E. Mulderink III
2. When Silence Was Golden: Civil War Films Before The Birth of a Nation
Kayla McKinney Wiggins & Michael Wiggins
3. Not a Lost Cause: the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Race Relations in The Birth of A Nation (1915) and Free State of Jones (2016)
Sue Matheson
4. Cornering the Last Rebel: The Confederate Soldier in American Film
Paul Haspel
5. Silent Comedy as Social Criticism: A Textual Analysis of The General (1926)
Douglas Brode
6. Screen Historian and American Myth Maker?: The Civil War According to John Ford
Scott Allen Nollen, with Douglas Brode
7. The North, the South; Black Folks, White Folks: Shirley Temple and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
Kathy Merlock Jackson and Ray Merlock
8. Hidden Behind Hoopskirts: The Many Women of Hollywood's Civil War
Rosanne Welch
9. The Golden Age of Hollywood's Belles: Is Tomorrow, After All, Another Day?
Biljana Oklop¿i¿
10. Gender, War and Sisterhood in the Novel and Film Versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
Fran Pheasant-Kelly
11. Literary and Cinematic Canon Fire: John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
Guerric DeBona, OSB
12. Adapting The Killer Angels: Historical Accuracy versus Poetic Vision in Gettysburg
Peggy A. Russo
13. Whiteness, Whiteness Everywhere: Walt Disney's Civil War Productions
Susan Aronstein and Jeanne Holland
14. (Re-)Visionist History in Sergio Leone's (De-)Mythologized Old West: The Civil War, Vietnam, and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
David S. Silverman
15. The Civil War as TV Miniseries: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
Judith Sobré
16. Documentary as an Art Form: Ken Burns' "Creative" Dramatization of the Civil War
Martin J. Manning, with Douglas Brode
17. Strange Homecomings: Hollywood and the Narrative of the Warrior's Return
Gregory Perrault
18. Featuring Atrocity & H8ful Heritage: Tarantino's Revision of Civil War Mythology
Beth Jane Toren
19. Brother Against . . . Monster: Hidden Stories of the Civil War
Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
About the author
Edited by Douglas Brode; Shea T. Brode and Cynthia J. Miller - Contributions by Susan Aronstein; Guerric DeBona; Paul Haspel; Jeanne Holland; Martin Manning; Sue Matheson; Ray Merlock; Kathy Merlock Jackson; Earl F. Mulderink III; Scott Allen Nollen; Bilj
Summary
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 to explore issues of morality, race, gender, nation, and history in films and television shows featuring the American Civil War.
