The First World War and popular cinema : 1914 to the present / edited by Michael Paris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paris, Michael, Author.

Contributor:

Paris, Michael, 1949- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Cinema was almost twenty years old when WWI broke out but the war introduced radical changes in the making and use of film. The First World War and Popular Cinema is a new attempt to provide a comparative analysis of how the war has been remembered in film. It looks at how national cinemas were mobilised as part of the war effort and at how, subsequently, film makers shaped the memory and legacy of the war in later years. The book takes a comparative approach with case studies on Britain, United States and Russia and includes essays which examine the film production of other combatant nations: Germany, France, Italy, Australia, Canada, Poland. The films examined include All Quiet on the Western Front, Gallipoli, J'Accuse, The Grand Illusion, The Big Parade, Westfront 1918 and Regenerationwell as lesser known titles from the period 1920-1990. For students, teachers and academics, as well as readers interested in film or the First World War, this collection of essays provides a fascinating study of the ways in which popular cinema has reconstructed the experience of the First World War.Key FeaturesOriginal and comparative volumeAn examination of how all the major combatant nations have reconstructed the war in filmAll essays are written by distinguished experts in their fieldIllustrated with rare contemporary photographs, film stills and film posters

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 Cinema and the Memory of the Great War

2 Official British Film Propaganda

3 Enduring Heroes: British Feature Films and the First World War, 1919-1997

4 The ANZAC and the Sentimental Bloke: Australian Culture and Screen Representations of World War One

5 Canadian Film and the First World War

6 France: the Silent Memory

7 The United States' Film Industry and World War One

8 The Representation of the Great War in Italian Cinema

9 A War Forgotten: the Great War in Russian and Soviet Cinema

10 Between Parochialism and Universalism: World War One in Polish Cinematography

11 The Experience of the First World War and the German Film

12 Where is the War? Some Aspects of the Effects of World War One on Austrian Cinema

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-7152-8