![]() ![]() Andrew Kelly is a cultural planner and film historian. He analyses the key themes of these films such as the forgotten generation, the brutality of military incompetence and the waste, horror and bitterness of conflict. Making extensive use of material from the Hays Office and censorship records from archives around the world, Andrew Kelly explores those films which have been considered as anti-war. Illustrated with over twenty stills from classic films such as The Big Parade, La Grande Illusion, Gold Diggers of 1933, The Roaring Twenties and King and Country, Cinema and the Great War examines the way in which British, American, German and French cinema has helped to transform the popular view of war. Andrew Kelly explores the development of anti-war cinema, from the ground-breaking Lay Down Your Arms, based on Bertha von Suttner’s best-selling novel in 1914, and Lewis Milestone’s bitter All Quiet on the Western Front through to Stanley Kubrick’s magnificent Paths of Glory. Used as a tool for propaganda during the war itself, by the mid-1920s it had begun to reflect the rejection of conflict prevalent in all the arts. Cinema and the Great War concentrates on one part of the art of the war: the cinema. It is this art which has continued to mould the conscience and the imagination since the end of the Great War. ![]() What remains is the art of the war: the poetry and prose, the paintings, photographs and films. With over eight million dead and twenty million injured, it was a disaster unparalleled in human history. No war was as violent, pointless and miserable as the First World War. ![]()
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