The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939

The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939
Author :
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 322
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781438476988
ISBN-13 : 1438476981
Rating : 4/5 (981 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939 by : Michael Hammond

Download or read book The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939 written by Michael Hammond and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive account of how America's film industry remembered and reimagined World War I from the Armistice in 1918 to the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Based on detailed archival research, Michael Hammond shows how the war and the sociocultural changes it brought made their way into cinematic stories and images. He traces the development of the war's memory in films dealing with combat on the ground and in the air, the role of women behind the lines, returning veterans, and through the social problem and horror genres. Hammond first examines movies that dealt directly with the war and the men and women who experienced it. He then turns to the consequences of the war as they played out across a range of films, some only tangentially related to the conflict itself. Hammond finds that the Great War acted as a storehouse of motifs and tropes drawn upon in the service of an industry actively seeking to deliver clearly told, entertaining stories to paying audiences. Films analyzed include The Big Parade, Grand Hotel, Hell's Angels, The Black Cat, and Wings. Drawing on production records, set designs, personal accounts, and the advertising and reception of key films, the book offers unique insight into a cinematic remembering that was a product of the studio system as it emerged as a global entertainment industry.


The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939 Related Books

The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Michael Hammond
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

GET EBOOK

Assesses how America’s film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period. This is the definitive account of how America’s film industry rememb
The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film
Language: en
Pages: 468
Authors: Martin Löschnigg
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-14 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

GET EBOOK

The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally i
Great War Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Nanette Norris
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-16 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

GET EBOOK

New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, i
Publishers, Readers and the Great War
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Vincent Trott
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-05 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

GET EBOOK

Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular memory of the conflict centred on disillus
Hollywood Intellect
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: James D. Bloom
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-10 - Publisher: Lexington Books

GET EBOOK

Hollywood Intellect takes off from the wide-spread hand-wringing over the fate or disappearance of so-called public intellectuals. An account of the title pheno