Sound and Silence in Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9497035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica Meyer (0000-0002-3031-8760, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1789-1792 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ahr/rhz1020 |
| OpenAlex | W2996349183 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This roundtable offers four diverse perspectives on Peter Jackson’s innovative and controversial World War I documentary film They Shall Not Grow Old (2018). Jackson’s film breaks the mold of the documentary genre in its manipulation and montage of the visual and audio archives held at the Imperial War Museum in London. Yet he puts his technical virtuosity and resources at the service of a very traditional interpretation of the war, focusing almost entirely on the experience of young Englishmen on the Western Front. Scholars Santanu Das, Susan R. Grayzel, Jessica Meyer, and Catherine Robson offer their reflections on both the gains and losses of Jackson’s paradoxical original use of historical documents and old-fashioned rendering of the war’s experiential elements. They consider, respectively, the experience of colonial troops, the place of women in the war, and Jackson’s creative, if controversial, interpretation of the visual and aural archive
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Front (military) · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Silence · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Engineering · History · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |