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Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War have provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes for cinematic narrati

From Birth of a Nation to Cold Mountain, hundreds of directors, actors, and screenwriters have used the Civil War to create compelling cinema. However, each gen

The Civil War on Film will inform high school and college readers interested in Civil War film history on issues that arise when film viewers confuse entertainm

During the late nineteenth century, magazines, newspapers, novelists, and even historians presented a revised version of the Civil War that, intending to reconc

This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the