Civil War-Core

Media depicting the Civil War has become the basis for the sad, trad wives of cottagecore, debutantes, and a lot more in contemporary American femininity trends. Bethany and Mary get in deep to a film syllabus of remakes, appropriations, and retellings including:

• Gone with the Wind (1939)

• Little Women (1994 and 2019)

• The Beguiled (1971 and 2017)

  • Angelica Jade Bastien on Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled

• Cold Mountain (2003)