2021 Summer Term
The First World War
Films as Political Commentaries on the War
- Adams, Simon, World War I (London, New York, Sydney, Delhi, Paris, Munch and Johannesburg: Dorling Kindersley 2001)
- Banks, Arthur, A Military Atlas of the First World War (Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2001)
- Beauchamp, Zack, Timothy B. Lee and Matthew Iglesias, "40 Maps That Explain World War I," Vox, August 4, 2014.
- Davis, Belinda, "Experience, Identity, and Memory: The Legacy of World War I," The Journal of Modern History, 75/1 (March 2003), pp.111-131.
- Gilbert, Martin, The Routledge Atlas of the First World War: The Complete History, second edition (London: Routledge, 1994)
- "How the World Went to War in 1914," Imperial War Museums.
Episode 1 — One Month in Summer
- Elstein, David, "The BBC's Great War," Open Democracy, April 3, 2014.
- Hayhurst, Mark, "37 Days: Changing My Perspective of WW1," BBC, March 7, 2014.
- Hayhurst, Mark, "The Battle of '37 Days,'" Open Democracy, April 12, 2014.
- Henig, Ruth, The Origins of the First World War, third edition (London and New York: Routledge, 2002)
- Koch, H. W., "Introduction," in H. W. Koch (ed.), The Origins of the First World War: Great Power Rivalry and German War Aims, second edition (London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1984), pp.1-29.
- Overy Richard, "The Troubled Continent, 1870-1914," in Richard Overy (consultant), World War I: The Definitive Visual History (London, New York, Melbourne, Munich and Delhi: Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2014), pp.11-34.
- Rauchensteiner, Manfried, "Bloody Sundays," in his The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918 [translated by Alex J. Kay and Anna Güttel-Bellert] (Vienna, Cologne and Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2014), pp.81-115.
- Stevenson, David, The Outbreak of the First World War: 1914 in Perspective (London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1997)
- Buckmaster, Luke, "Gallipoli Rewatched – Weir Scatchingly Deconstructs War as Grand Adventure," The Guardian, November 6, 2014.
- Dobrez, Livio and Pat Dobrez, "Old Myths and New Delusions: Peter Weir's Australia," Kunapipi, 4/2 (1982), pp.61-75.
- Haltof, Marek, "In Quest of Self-Identity: Gallipoli, Mateship, and the Construction of Australian National Identity," Journal of Popular Film and Television, 21/1 (1993), pp.27-36.
- Horne, Julia, "In Their Own Words: Letters from ANZACs during the Gallipoli Evacuation," The Conversation, December 20, 2015.
- "Peter Weir on Gallipoli: 'I Felt Somehow I Was Really Touching History,'" Literature/Film Quarterly, 9/4 (1981), pp.213-217.
- Prescott, Nick, "Peter Weir's Gallipoli 40 Years On: Deftly Directed and Still Devastating," The Conversation, April 18, 2021.
All Quiet on the Western Front
- Allroggen, Antje, "How All Quiet on the Western Front Ran Afoul of Nazi Film Censors," The Wire, November 23, 2020.
- Battersby, Eileen, "All Quiet on the Western Front: Portrait of Germany's Generation War," The Irish Times, May 5, 2015.
- Eksteins, Modris, "All Quiet on the Western Front and the Fate of a War," Journal of Contemporary History, 15/2 (April 1980), pp.345-366.
- Eksteins, Modris, " War, Memory, and Politics: The Fate of the Film All Quiet on the Western Front," Central European History, 13/1 (March 1980), pp.60-82.
- Jones, Dorothy B., "War without Glory," The Quarterly of Film, Radio and Television, 8/3 (Spring 1954), pp.273-289.
- Robinson, Harlow, "Lewis Milestone: The Russian Connection," Cinéaste, 37/2 (Spring 2012), pp.10-14.
- Sauer, Patrick, "The Most Loved and Hated Novel about World War I," Smithsonian Magazine, June 16, 2015.
- Simmons, Jerold, "Film and International Politics: The Banning of All Quiet on the Western Front in Germany and Austria, 1930-1931," The Historian, 52/1 (November 1989), pp.40-60.
- Brussat, Frederic and Mary Ann, "Joyeux Noel," Spirituality & Practice.
- "Christian Carion's Film, Joyeux Noël: A Place of Memory," The United States World War One Centennial Commission.
- Crocker, Terri Blom, The Christmas Truce: Myth, Memory and the First World War [foreword by Peter Grant] (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2015)
- Dash, Mike, "The Story of the WWI Christmas Truce," Smithsonian Magazine, December 23, 2011.
- Dearden, Lizzie, "Christmas Day Truce 1914: Letter from Trenches Shows Football Match through Soldier's Eyes for First Time," Independent, December 24, 2014.
- Hardy, Jay, "The Famous Christmas Truce of 1914."
- Meadowcroft, Blake, "Joyeux Noel – Film Review," The Suburban Times, December 10, 2019.
- Streissguth, Tom, The Christmas Truce of 1914 (Minneapolis: Abdo Publishing, 2016)
- "The Christmas Truce of WWI as Told by the Soldiers Who Were There," The Week, December 25, 2019.
- "The Real Story of the Christmas Truce," Imperial War Museums.
- "World War 1: The Christmas Truce of December 1914," The Gazette.
- "WWI 1914 Christmas Truce: 'Stop It at Once' Oder Auctioned," BBC News, September 2, 2016.
- Andrew, Geoff, "Paths of Glory: Stanley Kubrick's First Film of 'Genius,'" BFI, October 31, 2017.
- Bradshaw, Peter, "Paths of Glory Review – Kubrick's First World War Master-piece," The Guardian, May 1, 2014.
- Carr, Jeremy, "The Rule of War in Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory," Little White Lies, December 20, 2017.
- Downing, Taylor, "War on Film: Paths of Glory," Military History, February 6, 2014.
- Friedrich, Adam, "Icononic Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory," Wisconsin Public Radio, December 12, 2020.
- Iftakhar, Shampa, "Paths of Glory: Injustice and Crime against Humanity," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, 1/3 (September 2015), pp.207-210.
- Jeakle, Will, "How Kirk Douglas Made a Better World War I Film than 1917," Forbes, February 6, 2020.
- Kalender, Özgür, "Film – Paths of Glory," Özgür Kalender, April 7, 2019.
- Lamey, Seth, "Paths of Glory and Spartacus: The Stars Begin to Align for Kubrick," POVwinona, July 9, 2018.
- McLean, Ralph, "Cult Movie: Paths of Glory a Classic Kubrick Anti-War Story," The Irish News, September 30, 2016.
- Macnab, Geoffrey, "Paths of Glory, Film Review: A Reminder of Stanley Kubrick's Powers as a Satirist," The Independent, May 1, 2014.
- Mayward, Joel, "Dax's Whistle – Paths of Glory (1957)," Bright Wall/Dark Room, Issue 88: Justice.
- Mermelstein, David, "A Great Film's Sadly Timeless Message," The Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2011.
- Prince, Rashawn, "4 Reasons Why Paths of Glory is Stanley Kubrick's Underrated Masterpiece," Taste of Cinema, August 29, 2017.
- Wilmington, Michael, "Kubrick's Paths Returns for a New Appreciation," Chicago Tribune, Ferbruary 25, 2005.
- Braudy, Leo, "Renoir at Home: Interview with Jean Renoir," Film Quarterly, 50/1 (Autumn 1996), pp.2-8.
- Conroy, Melanie, "The Milieu of the Prisoner-of-War Camp in La Grande Illusion," Romance Notes, 55/3 (2015), pp.317-384.
- Kerans, James, "Classics Revisited: La Grande Illusion," Film Quarterly, 14/2 (Winter 1960), pp.10-17.
- Perebinossoff, Phillipe R., "Theatricals in Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game and Grand Illusion," Literature/Film Quarterly, 5/1 (Winter 1977), pp.50-56.
- Reader, Keith, "'If I Were a Girl—and I Am Not': Cross-dressing in Alain Berliner's Ma vie en rose and Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion," L'Esprit Créateur, 42/3 (Fall 2002), pp.50-59.
- Samuels, Maurice, "Renoir's La Grande Illusion and the 'Jewish Question,'" Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, 32/1 (Spring 2006), pp.165-192.
- Sesonske, Alexander, "Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion," The Georgia Review, 29/1 (Spring 1975), pp.207-244.
- Strebel, Elizabeth Grottle, "French Social Cinema and the Popular Front," Journal of Contemporary History, 12/3 (July 1977), pp.499-519.
- Vineberg, Steve, "Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion: The Beginng of Cinematic Realism," The Threepenny Review, 151 (Fall 2017), pp.22-23.
- Anderson, Scott, "The True Story of Lawrence of Arabia," Smithsonian Magazine, July 2014.
- Bohne, Luciana, "Leaning toward the Past: Pressures of Vision and Narrative in Lawrence of Arabia," Film Criticism, 15/1 (Fall 1990), pp.2-16.
- Ceplair, Larry, "A Marxist in Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Michael Wilson (1914-1978)," Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 34/2 (2014), pp.187-207.
- Crowdus, Gary, "Lawrence of Arabia, Now in Blu-ray, Rides Again: Or, a Film Buff's Confession of Divided Loyalties," Cinéaste, 38/2 (Spring 2013), pp.42-47.
- Crowdus, Gary, "Lawrence of Arabia: The Cinematic (Re) Writing of History," Cinéaste, 17/2 (1989), pp.14-21.
- Crowdus, "The Editing of Lawrence of Arabia: An Interview with Anne V. Coates," Cinéaste, 34/2 (Spring 2009), pp.48-53.
- Curtis, Carl C., "David Lean's Lawrence: 'Only Flesh and Blood,'" Literature/Film Quarterly, 40/4 (2012), pp.274-287.
- Hodson, Joel, "Who Wrote Lawrence of Arabia? Sam Spiegel and David Lean's Denial of Credit to a Blacklisted Screenwriter," Cinéaste, 20/4 (1994), pp.12-18.
- Karsh, Efraim and Inari Karsh, "Myth in the Desert, or Not the Great Arab Revolt," Middle Eastern Studies, 33/2 (April 1997), pp.267-312.
- Long, Andrew, "The Hidden and the Visible in British Orientalism: The Case of Lawrence of Arabia," Middle East Critique, 18/1 (2009), pp.21-37.
- Macfie, Alexander Lyon, "Representations of Lawrence of Arabia: From Said's Orientalism (1978) to David Lean's Film (1962)," Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 43/1 (April 2007), pp.77-87.
- Raw, Laurence, "T. E. Lawrence, the Turks, and the Arab Revolt in the Cinema: Anglo-American and Turkish Representations," Literature/Film Quarterly, 33/4 (2005), pp.252-261.
Un long dimanche de fiançailles
- Bear, Liza, "Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with a Distaste for War, on his Bittersweet A Very Long Engagement," IndieWire, November 24, 2004.
- Chocano, Carina, "A Fairy Tale in a Violent Time," Los Angeles Times, November 26, 2004.
- French, Philip, "Life and Deatn in No-Man's-Land," The Observer, January 23, 2005.
- Kaletzky, Marianne F., "Movie Review – A Very Long Engagement," The Harvard Crimson, December 17, 2004.
- Kelly, Bill, "Movie Review – A Very Long Engagement," Penn State News, July 14, 2021.
- Nesselson, Lisa, "A Very Long Engagement," Variety, October 22, 2004.
- Orr, Christopher, "The Movie Review: A Very Long Engagement," The Atlantic, July 26, 2005.
- Rivieccio, Genna, "There's a New WWI Movie in Town, But It's Still Not A Very Long Engagement," Culled Culture, February 17, 2020.
- Byrnes, Paul, "Film Review: See You Up There," The Sydney Morning Herald, July 18, 2018.
- Debruge, Peter, "Film Review: See You Up There (Au revoir là-haut)," Variety, May 31, 2018.
- Mintzer, Jordan, "See You Up There (Au revoir là-haut): Film Review," The Hollywood Reporter, October 25, 2017.
- Nesselson, Lisa, "See You Up There (Au revoir là-haut): Review," Screen Daily, October 30, 2017.
- Barnard, Linda, "Testament of Youth Offers Female View of Wartime: Review," Toronto Star, June 18, 2015.
- Bradshaw, Peter, "Testament of Youth Review – Vera Brittain's Not So Lovely War," The Guardian, October 14, 2014.
- Brownstein, Bill, "Movie Review: Testament of Youth Shows the Horrors of War from a Woman's Perspective," Montreal Gazette, June 19, 2015.
- Lodge, Guy, "London Film Review: Testament of Youth," Variety, October 14, 2014.
- Macdonald, Moira, "Testament of Youth: A WWI Memoir Soaked in Blood, Sweat and Tears," The Seattle Times, July 9, 2015.
- Macnab, Geoffrey, "Testament of Youth, Film Review: Vera Brittain Adaptation Grows More Powerful the Darker It Becomes," Independent, January 16, 2015.
- Morgenstern, Joe, "Testament of Youth Review: Love in a Time of Slaughter," The Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2015.
- Phillips, Michael, "Testament of Youth Review: War Account Lacks Intensity," Chicago Tribune, June 11, 2015.
- Reed, Rex, "Testament of Youth Is a Moving Adaptation of a Powerful WWI Memoir," Observer, June 3, 2015.
- Sparham, Laurie, "Testament of Youth: The First World War's Deep and Personal Effects," The Globe and Mail, June 19, 2015.
- Turan, Kenneth, "Review: Testament of Youth Traces WWI's Grave Effect on Woman's Life," Los Angeles Times, June 4, 2015.