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and the Ugly
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Black Confederates
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Civil War Memory
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- ISBN 9781440866623
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2020
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 entertainment with historical accuracy.
The nation's years of civil war were painful, destructive, and unpleasant. Yet war films tend to embrace mythologies that erase that historical reality, romanticizing the Civil War. The editors of this volume have little patience for any argument that implies race-based slavery isn't an entirely repugnant economic, political, and cultural institution and that the people who fought to preserve slavery were fighting for a glorious and admirable cause.
To that end, The Civil War on Film will open with a timeline and introduction and then explore ten films across decades of cinema history in ten chapters, from Birth of a Nation, which debuted in 1915, to The Free State of Jones, which debuted one hundred and one years later. It will also analyze and critique the myriad of mythologies and ideologies which appear in American Civil War films, including Lost Cause ideation, Black Confederate fictions, Northern Aggression mythologies, and White Savior tropes. It will also suggest the way particular films mirror the time in which they were written and filmed. Further resources will close the volume.
Peg A. Lamphier, PhD, teaches interdisciplinary humanities at California State Polytechnic University and American Women's History at Mount San Antonio College.
Rosanne Welch, PhD, executive director of Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting, wrote for Beverly Hills 90210, Picket Fences, ABC NEWS: Nightline, and Touched by an Angel.
