Douglas Brode developed and taught courses for several decades at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications until his recent retirement.

Shea T. Brode is an independent scholar who has collaborated with his father as editor on several previous collections.

Cynthia J. Miller is senior faculty at Emerson College's Institute for the Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies.

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