Title: The Blue and the Gray on the silver screen
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Government, War films, History and criticism, Motion pictures and the war, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Church of England, History, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, motion pictures and the war
Places: United States
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865
LC classification: E656 .K56 1996