Title: Cinema and the Great War /
Authors: Kelly, Andrew.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1997
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Motion pictures and the war; Motion pictures History; War films History and criticism.
Contents: 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.