University of Winchester
Faculty of Arts Research Seminar
Wednesday 17 February
4.30pm, SAB303
All welcome!
'Spent Bullets: Celluloid Veterans in 1920s and 30s Hollywood'
Dr Michael Hammond (University of Southampton)
Returning veterans have been a staple of Hollywood since virtually the beginning of cinema. D.W. Griffith’s Civil War cycle began at Biograph studios and culminated in The Birth of a Nation. Griffith was the most high profile of American directors who made films dealing in various ways with the returning soldier from that conflict. Prior to the Great War the returning soldier was rarely depicted as harbouring internal conflicts about their war experience but for the most part were ennobled by it. The celluloid life of the Great War veteran is marked by a shift toward a recognition of the internal strife and social problems they faced that had by the mid-1920s become the prevailing theme in public discourse about the actual experience of Great War veterans. This talk will outline some of these evolving characterisations as they developed in response to the changing complexion of veteran’s issues in the political and social realm while coinciding with the establishment of the classical style of narration in the late silent and early sound period.
Dr Michael Hammond is Associate Professor in Film at the University of Southampton. He is the author of The Big Show: British Cinema Culture in the Great War, 1914-1918 (2006), co-editor of The Contemporary Television Series (2005), Contemporary American Cinema (2006), and British Silent Cinema and the Great War (2011), and author of numerous articles and chapters on film history and stardom. He is presently completing the British Academy funded project The Afterimage of the Great War in Hollywood, 1919-39.
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