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.
Author(s): Ryan Copping
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 196
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Contents
1 Bandaged Wounds
The Paradox of War Fatigue—“NOT in Any Sense a War Film”
The Heart of Humanity
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
2 The War as It Was
Laurence Stallings
The Big Parade
Response in Great Britain
What Price Glory
3 The Dark Adventure of the Air War
The Air War in Hollywood
Wings
4 James Whale: “A Britisher Who Thinks, Cinematically, Like an American”
Journey’s End: The Play
Hell’s Angels
Journey’s End: The Film
Waterloo Bridge
5 The Black Void
6 Apocalyptic Futurism
Men Must Fight
Things to Come
7 The Universal Fraternity
Dark Journey
The Road Back
Three Comrades
Bibliography
Index
