Title The great war in American and British cinema, 1918-1938 : art amidst the ashes / Ryan Copping

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 196 pages) : color illustrations Series Palgrave studies in the history of the media Palgrave studies in the history of the media. Contents 1. Introduction: Historical Reception Studies and the Circulatory System.- 2. The Heart of Humanity and The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse: The Just War.- 3. Laurence Stallings and the Veteran-Author.- 4. James Whale: 'A Britisher Who Thinks, Cinematically, Like an American'.- 5. The Aftermath of All Quiet on the Western Front.- 6. Things to Come.- 7. The Universal Brotherhood Summary This book recounts the reception of selected films about the Great War released between 1918 and 1938 in the USA and Great Britain. It discusses the role that popular cinema played in forming and reflecting public opinion about the War and its political and cultural aftermath in both countries. Although the centenary has produced a wide number of studies on the memorialisation of the Great War in Britain and to a lesser degree the USA, none of them focused on audience reception in relation to the Anglo-American 'circulatory system of Trans-Atlantic culture Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebook Central, viewed March 6, 2021) Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Public opinion World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Public opinion War and motion pictures Public opinion Civilization Motion pictures Social history Great Britain United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030606718 3030606716

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