Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-351) and index.
Contents:
I wish I was in the land of cotton: America rewrites its history -- Lights, camera, action: moonlight and magnolias -- Weeping mothers, Southern belles and Nan, the girl spy: the Civil War film family and the American family -- South of the Mason-Dixon Line: political distortions -- Rastus loves his pork chops: African Americans from Sambo to Mammy -- The Birth of a Nation: the greatest motion picture ever made -- The whole truth and nothing but the truth? -- Birth: Titanic box office and tattered legacy -- Abe Lincoln in Hollywood -- The war comes to Tara -- Absolution for the Old South -- Home on the range: the Civil War movie goes West -- Kunta Kinte's Civil War -- The modern era.
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