The Great War in American and British Cinema, 1918-1938 : Art Amidst the Ashes (Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media)

Copping, Ryan

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2021/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 196 p.
• 商品コード 9783030606732

Full Description

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.

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.