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- Title
The Editor's Reflections and Reports.
- Authors
Rollins, Peter C.
- Abstract
This section provides an overview of articles related to film and history in the U.S. as of 2003. From the advent of cinema, as early as the Spanish-U.S. War, motion pictures have been made to define the meaning of such struggles. The U.S. motion picture related to World War I could allegedly be used as a model, during the early phases, while the United States was still a neutral nation, films such as Thomas Ince's Civilization (1916) stressed the uselessness and immorality of such conflicts. Once the U.S. went to war and the Office of War Information swung into action, the genre allegedly became more heroic. Government films from the U.S. such as, The Training of Colored Troops (1918) comforted audiences with a portrait of an important minority putting its shoulder to the wheel of war. Even D. W. Griffith, author of some of the most despicable stereotypes of African Americans in the pre-war era, directed a film entitled, The Greatest Thing in Life (1918), wherein on the battlefield, a white southerner learns to love his African American comrades in arms, to the point of kissing an African American soldier as he takes his last breath. After World War I, motion pictures such as The Big Parade (1925) and Wings (1927) allegedly touted the excitement and epic grandeur of war.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MOTION pictures &; history; WAR &; civilization; SPANISH-American War, 1898; WORLD War I; MOTION picture industry
- Publication
Film & History (03603695), 2003, Vol 33, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0360-3695
- Publication type
Article