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

by JennyBarrett (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2008

  $30.43

  No fewer than seven hundred Civil War films have been made by Hollywood from early silent days onwards, 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 book shows how these films create an American ancestor.