Shooting the Civil War: Cinema, History and American National Identity

by Jenny Barrett

No fewer than seven hundred Civil War films have been made by Hollywood from early silent days to the present, from the epoch-making "Birth of a Nation", through "The Red Badge of Courage" and "Gone With the Wind" to the recent "Glory", "Ride with the Devil" and "Cold Mountain". This readable and innovative book on the American Civil War as presented in Hollywood cinema goes deep into the best of these films, arguing that rather than belonging to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184511776X
• ISBN13: 9781845117764
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"