The Blue and the Gray on the silver screen
Subtitle: more than eighty years of Civil War movies
By: Roy Kinnard.
Publisher: Carol Pub. Group
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Secaucus, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: War films -- United States -- History.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Motion pictures and the war.
Description: "In The Blue and the Gray on the Silver Screen, film scholar Roy Kinnard presents a retrospective of nearly one hundred films which deal directly or peripherally with the Civil War period. Readers will relive such classics as The Red Badge of Courage and So Red the Rose as well as more recent films such as Sommersby and Gettysburg. Included are such comic films as Buster Keaton's classic The General and Red Skelton's A Southern Yankee. Each description includes a cast list, credits, and reviews.

Complete with nearly 200 photographs illustrating the text, the book is in itself a record of the war as portrayed by Hollywood." "With attention to detail and its careful analysis of how each movie reflected the period in which it was made, The Blue and the Gray on the Silver Screen provides a social commentary as well as a useful resource that will delight Civil War buffs and film fans alike."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Birch Lane Press book."
Includes index.