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The Blue and the Gray on the silver screen : more than eighty years of Civil War movies / Roy Kinnard.
LIBRA - Special E656 .K56 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kinnard, Roy, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War films.
- History.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Motion pictures and the war.
- United States.
- War and motion pictures.
- War films--United States--History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Secaucus, N.J.] : Published by Carol Publishing Group, [1996]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The birth of a nation
- The general
- Abraham Lincoln
- Only the brave
- Secret service
- Carolina
- Operator 13
- The little colonel
- The littlest Rebel
- So red the rose
- Hearts in bondage
- The prisoner of Shark Island
- Of human hearts
- Gone with the wind
- Young Mr. Lincoln
- More Civil War films of the 1930s
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- Dark command
- Man from Dakota
- Santa Fe Trail
- Virginia City
- Belle Starr
- A southern Yankee
- Tap roots
- The redhead and the cowboy
- Rocky Mountain
- Drums in the deep South
- The red badge of courage
- Red Mountain
- The tall target
- Springfield rifle
- The vanquished
- The Black Dakotas
- The raid
- Five guns west
- Prince of players
- Seven angry men
- Friendly persuasion
- Great day in the morning
- The great locomotive chase
- Band of angels
- Raintree County
- Ride a violent mile
- The proud Rebel
- Quantrill's raiders
- The horse soldiers
- More Civil War films of the 1950s
- The little shepherd of Kingdom Come
- Mysterious island
- How the West was won
- Young guns of Texas
- Advance to the rear
- Arizona raiders
- Finger on the trigger
- Major Dundee
- Shenandoah
- Alvarez Kelly
- The fastest guitar alive
- The good, the bad, and the ugly
- Gunfight in Abilene
- A time for killing
- Arizona bushwhackers
- Custer of the West
- Journey to Shiloh
- The desperados
- The undefeated
- More Civil War films of the 1960s
- A bullet for Sandoval
- Kill them all and come back alone
- Macho Callahan
- Rio Lobo
- The beguiled
- More Civil War films of the 1970s
- Glory
- Gettysburg
- Sommersby
- Appendix: Civil War films of the silent era (1903-29).
- Notes:
- "A Birch Lane Press book."
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1559723831
- OCLC:
- 35159233
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