Gone with the Glory: The Civil War in Cinema

by Brian Steel Wills

Book Overview

From Birth of a Nation to Cold Mountain, Hollywood has used the Civil War to create compelling cinema with each generation resolving the tug of war between entertainment value and historical accuracy differently. Wills looks at the portrayal of the war in film, explores their accuracy, how the films influenced each other, and how they reflect America's changing understandings of the conflict and of the nation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742545261
• ISBN13: 9780742545267
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"