The war, the West, and the wilderness / Kevin Brownlow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brownlow, Kevin, author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

Silent films--United States--History and criticism.

Silent films.

World War, 1914-1918--Motion pictures and the war.

World War, 1914-1918.

Western films--History and criticism.

Western films.

Documentary films--United States--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Documentary films--United States--History.

Silent films--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 602 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.

Contents:

The war ; The west ; The wilderness ; Sources of the films.

The war. The Balkans ; Propaganda ; American cameramen with the Germans ; Neutrality ; Terror weapons ; The battle cry of peace ; The Chaplin craze ; Cinemas at the front line ; Britain prepared ; The front-line cameraman ; Pacifism ; The Germans in America ; Germany's side of the war ; Mexico ; The United States declares ; The Creel committee ; The signal corps ; The propaganda films ; My four years in Germany ; Erich von Stroheim ; Griffith ; The British National Film ; Peace ; Smiles films ; The Russian intervention ; The departure of the war film ; Reparation ; King Vidor and The big parade ; What price glory? ; The elite guard ; Wings ; Barbed wire ; All quiet

The west. The die is cast ; Migration west ; Broncho Billy Anderson ; Bison 101 and Thomas Ince ; William S. Hart ; Lawmen and outlaws ; Al Jennings ; Emmet Dalton ; The cowboy in Hollywood ; Tom Mix ; Will Rogers ; Roundup ; The American Indian ; Edward S. Curtis ; The vanishing American ; Redskin ; The devil horse ; Yakima Canutt ; Sundown ; The wind ; The covered wagon ; North of 36 ; The iron horse ; The big trail

The wilderness. The film of fact ; Burton Holmes ; The Kolb brothers ; Herbert Ponting ; Cherry Kearton ; Lowell Thomas ; Captain Noel ; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson ; Robert Flaherty ; Frozen justice ; White shadows in the south seas ; Stark love

Stampede ; Grass ; Chang ; The viking ; The silent enemy ; Trader horn.

Notes:

"Sources of the films": pages 569-573.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Online version: Brownlow, Kevin. War, the West, and the wilderness.

ISBN:

9780307830647 (electronic bk.)

0307830640 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

90102092012

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