Shooting the Civil War
Subtitle: cinema, history and American national identity
By: Jenny Barrett.
Series: Cinema and society series; Cinema and society
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781845117757
Subjects: War films -- United States -- History and criticism; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Motion pictures and the war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-214) and index.

Includes filmography: p. [199]-203.
Table of contents: title: National identity, ideology and American film genres; title: Civil War melodramas: the family and the home; title: War-Westerns: shifting lines of conflict; title: Civil War combat films: masculine American ancestry; title: The Birth of a nation: race, family, gender; title: An enduring Southern ancestry; title: Conclusion: to remember/forget.