Hollywood's World War I : motion picture images /

In this study of feature films and documentaries, Hollywood's World War I traces America's changing views over five decades, as filmmakers have focused on a crisis that still reverberates in our civic and spiritual lives.

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Other Authors: Rollins, Peter C., O'Connor, John E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, [1997]
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Table of Contents:
  • The training of colored troops : a cinematic effort to promote national cohesion / Thomas Winter
  • The Great War and the war film as genre : Hearts of the world and What price glory? / James M. Welsh
  • The Great War as viewed from the twenties : The big parade / Michael T. Isenberg
  • The dawn patrol and the World War I air combat film genre : an exploration of American values / Dominick A. Pisano
  • Hell's angels above The western front / Robert Baird
  • The fighting 69th : an ambiguous portrait of isolationism/interventionism / Daniel J. Leab
  • "The devil's tool" : Alvin York and Sergeant York / Michael Birdwell
  • Military incompetence and the cinema of the first world war : Paths of glory / Andrew Kelly
  • Johnny got his gun : evolution of an antiwar statement / Martin F. Norden
  • Parallels or continuities in Goodbye Billy and The frozen war / Peter C. Rollins
  • CBS reports : interpreting World War I from the mid-1960s / Richard C. Bartone
  • The moving picture boys in the Great War : the making of a documentary / Larry Ward
  • Coming home from the Great War : World War I veterans in American film / James I. Deutsch.