Matthew Christopher Hulbert is a historian of American
violence and memory, with a specific interest in the Civil War era.
He is the author of The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War
Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West, winner of the
2017 Wiley-Silver Prize.
John C. Inscoe is Albert B. Saye Professor of History and
University Professor at the University of Georgia. His 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.
"Historians love to complain about how popular movies distort the
past, even as we envy their power to shape perceptions and beliefs.
The authors in this lively collection instead consider what those
films can teach us about the past, the film makers' present, and
the evolving mythologies of American exceptionalism."--Kenneth Noe,
author of The Yellowhammer War: Alabama in the Civil War and
Reconstruction
"In Writing History with Lightning, Matthew Hulbert and John Inscoe
assemble an all-star cast of scholars to explore a century of
filmmaking about nineteenth-century America. Covering a wide range
of movies and subjects, these fun, insightful essays shine the
brightest when they look beyond Hollywood's historical inaccuracies
and explain what filmmaking and history have in common--tension,
interpretation, narrative, context, and resonance. I give it two
thumbs up!"--Jason Phillips, author of Looming Civil War: How
Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future
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