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The Great War in American and British Cinema, 1918-1938 - Art Amidst the Ashes

English · Paperback / Softback

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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.

List of 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.

About the author










Ryan Copping teaches film studies courses in the Dept. of Visual and Media Arts at Grand Valley State University near Grand Rapids, Michigan.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom.


Product details

Authors Ryan Copping
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 25.11.2021
 
EAN 9783030606732
ISBN 978-3-0-3060673-2
No. of pages 196
Dimensions 148 mm x 11 mm x 210 mm
Illustrations XIII, 196 p. 1 illus.
Series Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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