The Great War in popular British cinema of the 1920s : before journey's end /
This book discusses British cinema's representation of the Great War during the 1920s in both battle reconstruction films and in popular romances. It argues that popular cinematic representations of the war offered surviving audiences a language through which to interpret their recent experienc...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Peace Days in Pictureland
- 'In the Midst of Peace we are at War': The Film Trade in 1919
- Battle Reconstructions and British Instructional Films
- Remembrance and the Ambivalent Gaze
- 'When the Boys Come Home'
- Bibliography
- Index.