Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The cradle of courage: warfare in American film in the 1910s and 1920s
Chapter 2: Combat, literature, and film: combat veterans and the production of narratives of wartime service, 1925-1930
Chapter 3: Comedies, cartoons, and carnage: World War I in American comic short films
Chapter 4: Race film and the depiction of African American military service, 1918-1939
Chapter 5: Girls in Hell: the changing depiction of women in the First World War
Chapter 6: For no reason at all: homecoming, disillusionment, and the failure of tradition
Chapter 7: Morals and muck: from suicide to superheroes
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Index.