Mike at the Movies: Global Perspectives on WWI
On Saturday, October 18, at 2:00 pm I will be giving a special World War I-themed film talk at the Wilmette Public Library to coincide with their series of programs commemorating the 100th anniversary of WWI. Below is a synopsis of the presentation I wrote for the library’s website:
In commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the first World War, film scholar Michael Smith will examine cinematic depictions of the “Great War” from a variety of perspectives. Film clips will include portrayals of the conflict as seen by Hollywood in the silent (The Big Parade) as well as the sound era (Lawrence of Arabia), not to mention responses from France (Grand Illusion), Russia (The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty) and Germany (where the reaction was more “coded” through the bleak movement known as Expressionism).
Anyone interested in attending can find more information in the Wilmette Public Library’s “Off the Shelf” newsletter:
Click to access offtheshelf_sept14.pdf
Hope to see you there!
White City Cinema 
September 26th, 2014 at 8:29 am
The WWI series at the Wilmette Library has been doing so incredibly well! So glad that you are a part of it!
September 26th, 2014 at 9:36 am
Hope to see a good turn out for this one too!
September 26th, 2014 at 7:43 pm
Sounds great, but will you also be doing a horror film themed talk considering that October is Halloween month? Anyway, I hope the talk goes really well:) I also can’t wait to come back to class on Wednesday:)
September 26th, 2014 at 10:59 pm
No horror talk this year (except for one I’ll be doing in my College of Lake County Film and Society class). See you Wednesday!