Cinema and the Great War

by Andrew Kelly

Cinema and the Great War concentrates on one part of the art of the the cinema. Used as tool for propaganda during the war itself, by the mid 1920s cinema had begun to reflect the rejection of conflict prevalent in all the arts. Andrew Kelly explores the development of anti-war cinema in, Britain, America, Germany and France from the ground-breaking Lay Down your Arms , made by Bertha Von Suttner in 1914 and Lewis Milestone's bitter All Quiet on the Western Front through to Stanley Kubrick's magnificent Paths of Glory .

234 pages, Hardcover

First published July 23, 1997

About the author

Andrew Kelly is the Yarra (Birrarung) Riverkeeper, part of the international Waterkeeper Alliance, which is based in New York. He has written numerous books for children and adults and lives within a stone's throw of the river in Melbourne, Australia.