This collection focuses upon the Allied war effort on the Western Front and in the Mediterranean. It explores film's pioneering role as propaganda; and its role in maintaining morale among soldiers on the front line and civilian audiences back home. It was published as a special issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: The Great War and the Moving Image 1. Writing History on the Page and Screen: Mediating Conflict through Britain's First World War Ambulance Trains 2. Everybody's Business: Film, Food and Victory in the First World War 3. Forgetting their troubles for a while: Australian soldiers' experiences of cinema during the First World War 4. Putting the moral into morale: YMCA cinemas on the Western Front, 1914-1918 5. 'Snapshots': Local Cinema Cultures in the Great War 6. Pixel Lions - the image of the soldier in First World War computer games
