CINEMA AND THE GREAT WAR
Written by Andrew Kelly
Published by Routledge
in 1997
ISBN: 0415052033
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- WORLD WAR I
- PERFORMING ARTS
- FILM
- CINEMA
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CINEMA AND THE GREAT WAR
Written by Andrew Kelly.
Stock no. 2107908
1st.
1997.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Exploring the way in which British, American, German and French cinema has helped to transform the popular view of war. Pictorial boards. B/w photos. 219 pages includes index. ISBN: 0415052033. Some bumping and wear to spine and corners.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Editor's preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The First pacifist film of the war: Ned med Vaabnene/Lay Down Your Arms
- 2 The United States and anti-war cinema, 1914-16: Civilization and Intolerance
- 3 The Great War seven years on: The Big Parade
- 4 The measure for all anti-war cinema: All Quiet on the Western Front
- 5 Bloody Slaughter, honourable death and utopian vision - the British cinema and the war: Journey's End, Tell England and Things to Come
- 6 From the Defeated: Westfront 1918, Kamaradschaft and Neimandsland - the German cinema and the war
- 7 The French cinema and the war: J'accuse, Verdun, visions d'histoire, Les Croix de bois and La Grande Illusion
- 8 Hollywood and post-war Germany: The Man I Killed, The Road Back and Three Comrades
- 9 The forgotten man and the lost generations in 1930's Hollywood
- 10 The brutality of military incompetence: Paths of Glory and King and Country
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Films