Aesthetical and narrative uses of the trench in the Hollywood cinema of 1918-1930

Throughout history of painting, the representation of landscape has been considered a laboratory for the human gaze on the world. The First World War and its new approach to the battlefield altered deeply the classical forms of representation, and replaced them with a mechanised and fragmentary vision, which was related with the development of photography and cinema. As Vicente J. Benet has analysed, Hollywod cinema used these deep changes in its filmic versions of the conflict, although it organised them following a narrative logic. In this text we intend to study how the battlefield and, particularly, the trench, are inserted in this logic of the history of landscape painting. We do so through some Hollywood films from the period 1918-1930. Firstly, we approach the trench as a composition value which can structure the image and guide the camera movement. In the second place, we study how it creates a dialog between its inside, melodrama scenery, and the outside, battlefield and danger. In both cases, we conclude that the trench as a form and as a narrative element plays a structuring and integrative role with the storytelling logic.

Memorias de un presidario político : 1857 : una víctima /

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In memoriam : Albert Craig Funkhouser (Co. F, 144 Inf., 36th Division), Paul Taylor Funkhouser (Co. B, 7th Machine Gun Bn., 3rd Division).

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1918 University of Michigan Baseball Team

Top Row: Edward Ruzicka, Nicholas Scheidler, Ath. Dir. Philip Bartelme, coach Carl Lundgren, student mngr jasper Reed), Edward Bowerman, Albert Ohlmacher,

Middle Row: Erick Langenhan, Thomas Adams, Chester Morrison, Burdette Glenn, Kenneth Knode, Roland Cooper, Harold Saunders

Front Row: John Parsons, Edward Mraz, Lowell Genebach, Arthur Ipple, Thomas Garrett

1918 University of Michigan Baseball Team

Top Row: asst. Coach Elmer Mitchell, Chester Morrison, Thomas Adams, coach Carl Lundgren, Roland Cooper, Nicholas Scheidler, ? Pickett, Harold Saunders

Middle Row: Lowell Genebach, captain Burdette Glenn, Kenneth Knode, Erick Langenhorn, Edward Mraz, ? Gilmartin, Edward Ruzicka

Front Row: George Ferguson, Albert Ohlmbacher, ? Leahy, Alexander Crockett, John Parsons, mngr. Jasper Reid

University of Michigan Football Team, 1918 (posed on Ferry Field)

Back Row: Doc May, Theodore Boville, Oscar Olson, Albert Lent, John Barnes, Abe Cohn, coach Fielding Yost, Frank Steketee, Robert Dunne, C. Wilford Wilson, D. Hadden, Nicholas Scheidler, Edward Hauser, asst. coach Prentis Douglas

Third Row: Frederick Fletcher, Frank Czysz, Harold Hunt, Jean Paul Freeman, Ernie Vick, Murray Van Wagoner, William Henderson, Angus Goetz, Chester Morrison, L.O. Lindstrom

Second Row: Paul Gingrass, Arthur Karpus, J. Stanley Carter, Archie Jordan, William Cruse, John Perrin, Kenneth Knode, William Walker

Front Row: Theodore Timchac, Robert Hamilton, Oscar Cartwright

Durch die Russische Revolution 1917-1918 /

Translation of: Through the Russian Revolution.

Pamiętniki Jakóba Gieysztora z lat 1857-1865 /

Vol. 2 includes indexes.

Report of the State Water Commission of California.

Chairmen : Charles D. Marx, 1912-1914--W. A. Johnstone, 1915/16--A. E. Chandler, 1916/18--Charles H. Lee, 1918/20.