Introduction & Chapter 1 - Back to the Front

This episode was written using the following references:

Eksteins, M. (1980). War, Memory, and Politics: The Fate of the Film All Quiet on the Western Front. Central European History, 13(1), 60-82.Eyman, Scott (2005). Lion of Hollywood: the life and legend of Louis B. Mayer (Ied.). New York, United States: Simon & Schuster. P. 117Holden, A. (1993). The Oscars: The Secret History of Hollywood’s Academy Awards. Little Brown and Company.Grainge, P., Jancovich, M., & Monteith, S. (2007). Film histories : an introduction and reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Kelly, A. (1997). Cinema and the Great War. London: Routledge.Koszarski, Richard. (1990). An Evening’s Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928. New York: Scribner.Paris, M. (2000). The First World War and popular cinema : 1914 to the present. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Robinson, D. (1968). Hollywood in the Twenties. London: Zwemmer.Salt, B. (1992). Film style and technology : history and analysis (Second edition.). London: Starword.Suid, Lawrence H. (2002). Guts & Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film. University Press of Kentucky.Thompson, Frank T. (2002). Texas Hollywood: Filmmaking in San Antonio since 1910. Maverick Publishing Company.

To learn more about Hollywood’s representation of the Great War, watch:

The Big Parade (1925) dir. King VidorWhat Price Glory? (1926) dir. Raoul WalshHell’s Angels (1930) dir. Howard HughesThe Dawn Patrol (1930) dir. Howard Hawks