Cinema and the Great War (Hardcover)

Introduction 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 Conclusion