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Race and Reconstruction on Film.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Race and Reconstruction on Film./
Author:	Berrett, Chandler.
Description:	1 online resource (149 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-05.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International57-05(E).
Subject:	History. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355914863

Race and Reconstruction on Film.
Berrett, Chandler.

Race and Reconstruction on Film. - 1 online resource (149 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-05.

Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Tulsa, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

This project analyzes how the Era of Reconstruction following the American Civil War has been interpreted on film throughout the 20th and 21st centuries and how cinematic interpretations compare with the historical interpretation of Reconstruction at the time of each film's release. While multiple films are analyzed, the project primarily focuses on D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915), Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind (1939), and Gary Ross's Free State of Jones (2016), as these films, in addition to being of historic and cinematic significance, are among a limited number of films that depict Reconstruction in any meaningful way.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355914863Subjects--Topical Terms:

669538
History.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Race and Reconstruction on Film.
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520 $a Popularized by William Dunning and John W. Burgess, the Dunning School interpretation of Reconstruction became the standard historical portrayal of the events of Reconstruction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Dunning School encouraged exaggeration of the plight of rich white Southerners during Reconstruction, ignored the plight of African American Freedmen, and blamed the Northern government and Freedmen for the failures of Reconstruction. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation adopted the Dunning School viewpoint, popularizing it as historical fact among the American public, in addition to the historical community. Claude Bower's 1929 book The Tragic Era aligned with the Dunning School yet placed the blame for Reconstruction primarily on Northerners and the United States government. Gone with the Wind followed in the same path as The Tragic Era, placing blame for Reconstruction on Northern carpetbaggers and politicians. The film also depicts African Americans in a racist manner and portrays rich white Southerners as the primary victims of Reconstruction.
520 $a This project concludes that the immense popularity of Gone with the Wind helped solidify the film's viewpoint, along with that of the Dunning School and The Tragic Era, as the history of Reconstruction. Despite inconsequential updates to the portrayal of race, future films that discussed Reconstruction followed the precedent set by The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind. Historical analysis of Reconstruction also went unchanged after The Tragic Era , even though historians W. E. B. Du Bois, and John Hope Franklin highlighted the plight of African American Freedmen. In the 1980s, historian Eric Foner's analysis of Reconstruction became the new historical standard. Foner revealed how the suffering of rich white plantation owners had been exaggerated, and he focused on the plight of Freedmen and poor white abolitionists in the South. It took 77 years for cinematic interpretation to accurately mirror history, as it only recently aligned with historians' modern views on Reconstruction, in the 2016 release Free State of Jones, which presents a far more accurate portrayal of Reconstruction than any prior film.
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