The American Civil War and the Hollywood War Film

• Author(s): John Trafton,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 194
• ISBN_10: 1137497025
  ISBN_13: 9781137497024
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / General , Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism , History / United States / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Sociology / General , Performing Arts / Film / General , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) ,

Description:...

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.