The American Civil War and the Hollywood War Film [electronic resource] / by John Trafton.
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016Description: IX, 194 p. online resourceContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781137497024
- 973 23
- E171-E183.9

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The American Civil War was viscerally documented through panorama paintings, photography, and soldier testimonials, leaving behind representational principles that would later inform the development of war film genre codes. This book explores how each of these representational modes cemented different formulas for providing war stories with pathos.