The American Civil War and the Hollywood War Film
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Argues that 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
Demonstrates the development of the war film genre from the silent era up to the present
Explores how representational modes cemented different formulas for providing war stories with emotional content
Autor*in
John Trafton
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American history The Civil War World War I World War II early cinema panorama painting pathos formula soldier written accounts the Afghanistan War the Iraq War the Vietnam War war and cinema war diary war film war photography