Aeroscopics: media of the Bird’s-Eye View

Abstract

journal. I wonder what the veterans thought of the memorial, with its elegance and symbolism more vivid than the realities and scars of war, quite like the patriotic and censored war films shown to the public. Reading about the day-to-day experiences on the front line, the joy and the fright and the hurt, I see a bit more life in the statue soldiers and mourn those who fell with more weight. Perhaps most importantly, Grosvenor’s layered research of British soldiers and WWI cinema connects the reader with life from 1914 to 1918 and makes it seem not that long ago.