Author: Brian Steel Wills
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0742545261
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
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.