Cinema and the Great War

1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-415-05203-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Cinema and Society

Cinema and the Great War concentrates on one part of the art of the war: the cinema. Used as tool for propaganda during the war itself, by the mid 1920s cinema had begun to reflect the rejection of conflict prevalent in all the arts. Andrew Kelly explores the development of anti-war cinema in, Britain, America, Germany and France from the ground-breaking Lay Down your Arms, made by Bertha Von Suttner in 1914 and Lewis Milestone's bitter All Quiet on the Western Front through to Stanley Kubrick's magnificent Paths of Glory.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kelly, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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, Kameradschaft and Niemandsland—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 generation in 1930s Hollywood 10 The brutality of military incompetence: Paths of Glory and King and Country Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Kelly