The Great War in Popular British Cinema of the 1920s

Before Journey's End
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-230-37170-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4091 g

This book discusses British cinema's representation of the Great War during the 1920s. It argues that popular cinematic representations of the war offered surviving audiences a language through which to interpret their recent experience, and traces the ways in which those interpretations changed during the decade.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Napper, L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Peace Days in Pictureland 1. 'In the Midst of Peace we are at War': The Film Trade in 1919 2. Battle Reconstructions and British Instructional Films 3. Remembrance and the Ambivalent Gaze 4. 'When the Boys Come Home' Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lawrence Napper is Lecturer in the Film Studies department of Kings College London, UK. His previous work includes British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years.