Cinema and the Great War

by Andrew Kelly

Overview

Cinema and the Great War concentrates on one part of the art of the war: the cinema. Used as tool for propaganda during the war itself, by the mid 1920s cinema had begun to reflect the rejection of conflict prevalent in all the arts. Andrew Kelly explores the development of anti-war cinema in, Britain, America, Germany and France from the ground-breaking Lay Down your Arms, made by Bertha Von Suttner in 1914 and Lewis Milestone's bitter All Quiet on the Western Front through to Stanley Kubrick's magnificent Paths of Glory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415514828
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/16/2011
Series:	Cinema and Society
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Andrew Kelly is a cultural planner and film historian. He is the author of Filming T.E.Lawrence: Korda’s lost epics.

Table of Contents

Introduction 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 Conclusion