| Description |
xi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cinema and society |
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Cinema and society.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p200-208. - Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [200]-208) and indexes |
| Subject |
Motion pictures in propaganda.
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Motion pictures -- History.
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War films -- History and criticism.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war.
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| LC no. |
98162421 |
| ISBN |
0415052033 |
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