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The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960's until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) 'national' memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its 'remembrance' in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.

World War, 1914-1918 --- Literature, Modern --- Collective memory and literature. --- War films --- Collective memory and motion pictures. --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism. --- Motion pictures and the war. --- Motion pictures and collective memory --- Literature and collective memory --- Motion pictures --- Literature --- War films History and criticism --- History and criticism --- World War, 1914-1918 - Literature and the war --- Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism --- Collective memory and literature --- World War, 1914-1918 - Motion pictures and the war --- War films - History and criticism --- Collective memory and motion pictures --- World War I. --- cultural memory. --- war film. --- war literature.