Overview
- Recounts the reception of selected films about the Great War released between 1918-1938 in the USA and Great Britain
- Discusses the role that popular cinema played in both forming and reflecting public opinion about the War and its political and cultural aftermath in both countries
- Focuses on audience reception in relation to the Anglo-American 'circulatory system' of Trans-Atlantic culture
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media (PSHM)
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About this book
This book recounts the reception of selected films about the Great War released between 1918 and 1938 in the USA and Great Britain. It discusses the role that popular cinema played in forming and reflecting public opinion about the War and its political and cultural aftermath in both countries. Although the centenary has produced a wide number of studies on the memorialisation of the Great War in Britain and to a lesser degree the USA, none of them focused on audience reception in relation to the Anglo-American ‘circulatory system’ of Trans-Atlantic culture.
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About the author
Ryan Copping teaches film studies courses in the Dept. of Visual and Media Arts at Grand Valley State University near Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Great War in American and British Cinema, 1918–1938
Book Subtitle: Art Amidst the Ashes
Authors: Ryan Copping
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60671-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60670-1Published: 11 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60673-2Published: 12 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60671-8Published: 10 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6575
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6583
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 196
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural History, Social History, History of Britain and Ireland, US History, Film History