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Interim book		The hero of the Dardanelles and other world war 1 silent dramas Canberra: National Film & Sound Archive, 2005. Call No: 71(94) REY Author: Reynaud, Daniel Place: Canberra Publisher: National Film & Sound Archive PubDate: 2005 PhysDes: 33 p. ; ill. ; 21 cm Series: National Film & Sound Archive monograph Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; AUSTRALIA; WORLD WAR I AND THE CINEMA Summary: “This monograph discusses a selection of Australia’s silent era narrative features, which drew their scenarios from real and imagined events, and the characters of The Great War of 1914-1918.” (preface) ISBN: 0642365148 More info
book		Ivor Novello : screen idol / Michael Williams London: British Film Institute, 2003. Call No: 81NOV WIL Author: Williams, Michael Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: vi, 193 p.: ill.; 24 cm Subject: STARS; PERIODICALS, FILM; PRESS AND THE CINEMA; WORLD WAR I AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY OF THE CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; NOVELLO, IVOR; NOVARRO, RAMON; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH; RAT, THE (UK, Graham Cutts, 1925); TRIUMPH OF THE RAT, THE (UK, Graham Cutts, 1926); DOWNHILL (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1927); LODGER, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1926) Summary: Examines how British film magazines shaped Ivor Novello's star persona, while classical Greek imagery and myth informed his iconography. This study broadens the scops of star studies, examining Novello in relation to a number of issues, including the trauma of World War 1, gender and sexuality, and the development of British silent films.[taken from back cover] ISBN: 0851709826 More info
book		War on film : the American cinema and World War 1, 1914-1941 / Michael T. Isenberg Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1981. Call No: 737 ISE Author: Isenberg, Michael T. Source: US Place: Rutherford Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press PubDate: 1981 PhysDes: 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Subject: \WORLD WAR I AND THE CINEMA; WORLD WAR I FILMS; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; WAR IN FILMS ISBN: 0838620043 Contents: -- preface -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- Part 1 Charting Terra Incognita: Remarks on Film and History -- 1: Film: the unused evidence -- 2: Historians, aesthetics, and film -- 3: toward a historical methodology for film scholarship -- part 2 realism and the war film -- 4: the myth of the 'objective camera': a critique of film reality -- 5: from idealism to nihilism: the plastic uses of the realistic film -- part 3 the camera eye: focus on war -- 6: the mirror of democracy -- 7: the trumpet calls: commitment and sacrifice -- 8: what price adventure? --9: films against war -- part 4 the camera eye: images in a mirror -- 10: the threat: the image of the enemy -- 11: the friend: the image of the ally -- 12: we ourselves: the image of the home front -- part 5: the camera eye: variations on a theme -- 13: war and women -- 14: war and horror -- conclusions -- notes -- bibliography of primary sources -- index -- More info
subject clippings file		WORLD WAR I AND THE CINEMA Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: WORLD WAR I AND THE CINEMA More info

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