Reel Civil War Mythmaking in American Film

Name: Reel Civil War Mythmaking in American Film
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ISBN: 9780375708329

ISBN-10: 0375708324

ISBN-13: 9780375708329

Edition: N/A

Authors: Bruce Chadwick

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During the late nineteenth century, magazines, newspapers, novelists, and even historians presented a revised version of the Civil War that, intending to reconcile the former foes, downplayed the issues of slavery and racial injustice, and often promoted and reinforced the worst racial stereotypes. The Reel Civil War tells the history of how these misrepresentations of history made their way into movies. More than 800 films have been made about the Civil War. Citing such classics as Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind as well as many other films, Bruce Chadwick shows how most of them have, until recently, projected an image of gallant soldiers, beautiful belles, sprawling plantations,…

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/3/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Blue, Gray and Technicolor



I Wish I Was in the Land of Cotton: America Rewrites Its History



Lights ... Camera ... Action: Moonlight and Magnolias



Weeping Mothers, Southern Belles and Nan, the Girl Spy: The Civil War Film Family and the American Family



South of the Mason-Dixon Line: Political Distortions



Rastus Loves His Pork Chops: African Americans from Sambo to Mammy



The Birth of a Nation: The Greatest Motion Picture Ever Made ...



The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth?



Birth: Titanic Box Office and Tattered Legacy



Abe Lincoln in Hollywood



The War Comes to Tara



Absolution for the Old South



Home on the Range: The Civil War Movie Goes West



Kunta Kinte's Civil War



The Modern Era


Notes


Bibliography


Index