Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9780861969210
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0861969219
Content:
At the start of hostilities in World War I, when the United States was still neutral, American newsreel companies and newspapers sent a new kind of journalist, the film correspondent, to Europe to record the Great War. These pioneering cameramen, accustomed to carrying the Kodaks and Graflexes of still photography, had to lug cumbersome equipment into the trenches. Facing dangerous conditions on the front, they also risked summary execution as supposed spies while navigating military red tape, censorship, and the business interests of the film and newspaper companies they represented. Based on extensive research in European and American archives, American Cinematographers in the Great War, 1914-1918 follows the adventures of these cameramen as they managed to document and film the atrocities around them in spite of enormous difficulties
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Dedication; Chapter 1 Over There; Chapter 2 Over Here; Chapter 3 Belgium; Chapter 4 William Randolph Hearst and the War; Chapter 5 Behind the German Lines; Chapter 6 Filming the Central Powers' Drive across Russian Poland; Chapter 7 Cameramen with the Entente; Chapter 8 Mobilizing Movies: the U.S. Signal Corps and the Committee on Public Information; Chapter 9 Aftermath; Colour Plates; Acknowledgements; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Castellan, James W American cinematographers in the Great War, 1914-1918 Herts, England : John Libbey Publishing, ©2016 ISBN 9780861967179
Language:
English
