Consider the films Friendly Persuasion, Shenandoah, and The Beguiled. How did the films deal with the issue of race? Gender?

– Consider the films Friendly Persuasion, Shenandoah, and The Beguiled.  Then answer the following question(s) for your essay:  According to these Civil War movies, what was life like on the home front?  What view(s) of the Civil War was (were) presented in these films?  How did the films deal with the issue of race?  Gender?  The nature of war?  Motivations for fighting?  How do the films treat the issue of individualism?  Resistance to war?  Were they pro-South, pro-North, or something else?  How did the films reflect their own times as well as the 1860s?  Which of these movies was the best historically?  As a film?  Why?