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<span><span>In </span><span>The American Civil War on Film and TV: Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color</span><span>, Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller bring together nineteen essays by a diverse array of scholars to explore issues of morality, race, gender, nation, and history in films and television shows featuring the American Civil War.</span></span>

<span><span>Introduction: “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory . . . ”: The Civil War in the American Popular Imagination</span></span>
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<span><span>Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller<br>1. America’s Civil War: Hollywood vs. History</span></span>
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<span><span>Earl E. Mulderink III</span></span>
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<span><span>2. When Silence Was Golden: Civil War Films Before </span><span>The Birth of a Nation</span></span>
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<span><span> Kayla McKinney Wiggins &amp; Michael Wiggins<br>3. Not a Lost Cause: the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Race Relations in </span><span>The Birth of A Nation</span><span> (1915) and </span><span>Free State of Jones</span><span> (2016)</span></span>
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<span><span>Sue Matheson<br>4. Cornering the Last Rebel: The Confederate Soldier in American Film</span></span>
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<span><span>Paul Haspel<br>5. Silent Comedy as Social Criticism: A Textual Analysis of </span><span>The General</span><span> (1926)</span></span>
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<span><span>Douglas Brode<br>6. Screen Historian and American Myth Maker?: The Civil War According to John Ford</span></span>
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<span><span>Scott Allen Nollen, with Douglas Brode<br>7. The North, the South; Black Folks, White Folks: Shirley Temple and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson</span></span>
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<span><span>Kathy Merlock Jackson and Ray Merlock<br>8. Hidden Behind Hoopskirts: The Many Women of Hollywood’s Civil War </span></span>
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<span><span>Rosanne Welch</span></span>
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<span><span>9. The Golden Age of Hollywood’s Belles: Is Tomorrow, After All, Another Day?</span></span>
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<span><span>Biljana </span><span>Oklopčić</span></span>
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<span><span>10. Gender, War and Sisterhood in the Novel and Film Versions of Louisa May Alcott’s </span><span>Little Women</span></span>
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<span><span>Fran Pheasant-Kelly<br>11. Literary and Cinematic Canon Fire: John Huston's </span><span>The Red Badge of Courage</span><span> (1951)</span></span>
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<span><span>Guerric DeBona, OSB<br>12. Adapting </span><span>The Killer Angels</span><span>: Historical Accuracy versus Poetic Vision in </span><span>Gettysburg</span></span>
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<span><span>Peggy A. Russo <br>13. Whiteness, Whiteness Everywhere: Walt Disney’s Civil War Productions</span></span>
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<span><span>Susan Aronstein and Jeanne Holland<br>14. (Re-)Visionist History in Sergio Leone’s (De-)Mythologized Old West: The Civil War, Vietnam, and </span><span>The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly</span></span>
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<span><span>David S. Silverman</span></span>
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<span><span>15. The Civil War as TV Miniseries: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful</span></span>
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<span><span>Judith Sobré</span></span>
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<span><span>16. Documentary as an Art Form: Ken Burns’ “Creative” Dramatization of the Civil War</span></span>
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<span><span>Martin J. Manning, with Douglas Brode<br>17. Strange Homecomings: Hollywood and the Narrative of the Warrior’s Return </span></span>
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<span><span>Gregory Perrault</span></span>
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<span><span>18. Featuring Atrocity &amp; H8ful Heritage: Tarantino’s Revision of Civil War Mythology</span></span>
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<span><span>Beth Jane Toren<br>19. Brother Against . . . Monster: Hidden Stories of the Civil War</span></span>
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<span><span>Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper</span></span>

<span><span>Douglas Brode developed and taught courses for several decades at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications until his recent retirement. </span></span>
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<span><span>Shea T. Brode is an independent scholar who has collaborated with his father as editor on several previous collections. </span></span>
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<span><span>Cynthia J. Miller is senior faculty at Emerson College's Institute for the Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies. </span></span>