Philip D. Beidler

Biography

Philip Beidler is Professor of English at the University of Alabama, where he has taught American literature since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1974. His books include The Good War’s Greatest Hits: World War II and American Remembering and First Books: The Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama.

See Work

ESSAYS / Summer 1999

Ted Turner et al. at Gettysburg; or, Re-Enactors in the Attic

By Philip D. Beidler

What I do want to talk about is the packaging and marketing of the Civil War as part of a larger commodification of cultural desire in which the making of Turner’s film and his participation in it become exemplary. I wish to speak, that is...

Winter 2003

Calley’s Ghost

By Philip D. Beidler
Autumn 1996

Remembering the Best Years of Our Lives

By Philip D. Beidler