The American Civil War and the Hollywood War Film
Throughout film history, war films have been in constant dialogue with both previous depictions of war and contemporary debates and technology. War films remember older war film cycles and draw upon the resources of the present day to say something new ab
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The American Civil War and the Hollywood War Film John Trafton
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DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-49702-4 Distribution in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world is by Palgrave Macmillan®, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Trafton, John, 1982The American Civil War and the Hollywood war film / John Trafton. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. War films—United States—History and criticism. 2. United States— History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Motion pictures and the war. 3. History in motion pictures. I. Title. PN1995.9.W3T83 2015 791.43’658737—dc23 2015021051 A catalogue record for the book is available from the British Library.
Contents
List of Figures
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: The Civil War, Pathos Formula, and Genre Memory
1
1
Civil War Paintings and the War Panorama
27
2
Panorama, Phantasmagoria, and Subjective Vision in War Cinema
49
3
War Photography
71
4
Photography and the War Film
93
5
The Soldier Diary
123
6
Civil War Epistolary and the Hollywood War Film
143
Coda: The Civil War, the American War Film, and Cultural Memory
159
Notes
167
Chronology of Events
175
Filmography
179
Bibliography
181
Index
189
Figures
Figure 1.1 Figure 1.2 Figure 2.1 Figure 3.1 Figure 3.2 Figure 3.3 Figure 4.1
Figure 4.2
Figure 6.1
Figure 6.2
Prisoners from the Front by Winslow Homer (1866) A painted cyclorama view of the Battle of Gettysburg, recently reconditioned Willard’s two-thousand-yard stare
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