352 pages / 6.00 x 9.00 inches / 32 halftones
History / United States - 19th Century | Performing Arts / Film | Performing Arts / Film / Historical
As opposed to previous volumes focused on topics like slavery or the West, Writing History with Lightning edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and John C. Inscoe offers an expansive look at how films represent the history of nineteenth-century America and, in turn, how those depictions influence the ways in which mass audiences remember, envision, and reimagine the nation’s past. Across twenty-six essays, a group of prominent historians, including Catherine Clinton, Kenneth Greenberg, and Marcus Rediker, moves beyond separating fact from fiction to consider the raw power that movies possess in influencing broad interpretations of American history.
Matthew Christopher Hulbert is a cultural and military historian of nineteenth-century America. He teaches at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and is the author of The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West, winner of the Wiley-Silver Prize.
John C. Inscoe is the Albert B. Saye Professor of History and University Professor at the University of Georgia. His many books include Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography; Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South; and Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina.
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