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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255238903321

Autore

Trafton John

Titolo

The American Civil War and the Hollywood War Film [[electronic resource] /] / by John Trafton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-49702-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 194 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/658737

Soggetti

United States—Study and teaching

Motion pictures—History

United States—History

American Culture

Film History

US History

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Motion pictures and the war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The Civil War, Pathos Formula, and Genre Memory -- 1. Civil War Paintings and the War Panorama 2. Panorama, Phantasmagoria, and Subjective Vision in War Cinema -- 3. War Photography -- 4. Photography and the War Film -- 5. The Soldier Diary -- 6. Civil War Epistolary and the Hollywood War Film -- Coda.

Sommario/riassunto

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.