For No Reason at All : The Changing Narrative of the First World War in American Film /

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"The years following the signing of the Armistice saw a transformation of traditional attitudes regarding military conflict as America attempted to digest the enormity and futility of the First World War. During these years popular film culture in the United States created new ways of addressin...

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Autor principal: Hinkelman, Jeffrey A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women.
War films.
War and motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Historical films.
Comedy films.
African Americans.
Comedy films > United States > History and criticism.
World War, 1914-1918 > Women.
World War, 1914-1918 > African Americans.
War films > United States > History > 20th century.
Historical films > United States > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 > Motion pictures and the war.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The cradle of courage: warfare in American film in the 1910s and 1920s
  • Chapter 2: Combat, literature, and film: combat veterans and the production of narratives of wartime service, 1925-1930
  • Chapter 3: Comedies, cartoons, and carnage: World War I in American comic short films
  • Chapter 4: Race film and the depiction of African American military service, 1918-1939
  • Chapter 5: Girls in Hell: the changing depiction of women in the First World War
  • Chapter 6: For no reason at all: homecoming, disillusionment, and the failure of tradition
  • Chapter 7: Morals and muck: from suicide to superheroes
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Index.

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