Abstract
When the movie Shenandoah was released in the summer of 1965, few Americans watched the film with much thought toward the slow but escalating tensions in Vietnam. Though one of Jimmy Stewart’s lesser-acclaimed movies, the film presents Stewart in the lead role as Charlie Anderson, a widower with seven children, including six sons, who desperately tries to maintain his neutral status during the Civil War. His primary goal throughout is to remain uninvolved in the conflict, and he repeatedly explains that his family will not take part in the war until it concerns them. Even as he tries valiantly to keep all his sons on the family farm in war-torn Virginia, and thereby out of the fighting, the conflict continues to rage around them.
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Cooper, D. (2014). Introduction: The Shenandoah Doctrine. In: Cooper, D., Phelan, C. (eds) Motherhood and War. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137437945_1
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