CINEMA AND WAR - Film, the Great War and the image of warfare in the Twentieth Century
(Cinema e guerra - Il film, la Grande Guerra e l’immaginario bellico del Novecento)
Giaime Alonge

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The publication

There are two ways to describe a battle scene. One is the "subjective shot" of the infantryman who sees the battle as a string of terrible and inexplicable events. The other is the "objective shot" of the supreme commander who perceives each event as the result of a rational sequence. The two opposing perspectives, represented in the metaphors of the labyrinth and the chessboard, are also to be found in documentaries and war films.
This book examines the close ties between the cinema and the Great War which also represent the key to the broader theme of the relationship between cinema and modernity.
In a look-back at war films - also analysed in their links to Nineteenth-century literature and other art forms such as painting, photography and television - Giaime Alonge outlines an original history of action and war films which covers the entire Twentieth Century.

The author

Giaime Alonge is a researcher in the History of the Cinema at the University of Turin. He has also published Ladri di Biciclette-Vittorio De Sica (1997) and, with R. Menarini and M. Moretti, Il cinema di guerra americana. 1968-1999 (1999).

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