The American Civil War And The Hollywood War Film (paperback Or Softback)

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. 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 about the nature of war. The American Civil War was viscerally documented through large-scale panorama paintings, still photography, and soldier testimonials, leaving behind representational principles that would later inform the development of the war film genre from the silent era up to the present. This book explores how each of these representational modes cemented different formulas for providing war stories with emotional content. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Figures 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction: The Civil War, Pathos Formula, and Genre Memory 11 1 Civil War Paintings and the War Panorama 37 2 Panorama, Phantasmagoria, and Subjective Vision in War Cinema 58 3 War Photography 79 4 Photography and the War Film 101 5 The Soldier Diary 130 6 Civil War Epistolary and the Hollywood War Film 150 Coda: The Civil War, the American War Film, and Cultural Memory 165 Notes 172 Chronology of Events 179 Filmography 183 Bibliography 185 Index 192 Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-26 Civil War Paintings and the War Panorama....Pages 27-47 Panorama, Phantasmagoria, and Subjective Vision in War Cinema....Pages 49-69 War Photography....Pages 71-92 Photography and the War Film....Pages 93-121 The Soldier Diary....Pages 123-142 Civil War Epistolary and the Hollywood War Film....Pages 143-157 Coda....Pages 159-165 Back Matter....Pages 167-194