The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1918-1939

by Michael Hammond

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438476965
• ISBN13: 9781438476964
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"