British Silent Cinema and the Great War [electronic resource] /
Hammond, M.editor.
Williams, M.editor.
This innovative book presents for the first time detailed histories of the impact of the Great War on British cinema in the silent period, from actual war footage to fiction filmmaking. In doing so it explores how cinema helped to shape the public memory of the war during the 1920s.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Goodbye to All That or Business as Usual? History and Memory of the Great War in British Cinema; Part I: The War; 2 The Battle of the Somme (1916): An Industrial Process Film that 'Wounds the Heart'; 3 British and Colonial: What the Company Did in the Great War; 4 'Improper Practices' in Great War British Cinemas; 5 'Shells, Shots and Shrapnel': Picturegoer Goes to War; Part II: Aftermath: Memory and Memorial
6 'A Victory and a Defeat as Glorious as a Victory': The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands (Walter Summers, 1927)7 Remembering the War in 1920s British Cinema; 8 Remembrance, Re-membering and Recollection: Walter Summers and the British War Film of the 1920s; 9 'Fire, Blood and Steel': Memory and Spectacle in The Guns of Loos (Sinclair Hill, 1928); Part III: Notes from the Archive; 10 Hello to All This: Music, Memory and Revisiting the Great War; 11 The Dead, Battlefield Burials and the Unveiling of War Memorials in Films of the Great War Era
12 Anticipating the Blitz Spirit in First World War Propaganda Film: Evidence in the Imperial War Museum Archive13 'How Shall We Look Again'? Revisiting the Archive in British Silent Film and the Great War; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This innovative book presents for the first time detailed histories of the impact of the Great War on British cinema in the silent period, from actual war footage to fiction filmmaking. In doing so it explores how cinema helped to shape the public memory of the war during the 1920s.
Motion pictures—Great Britain.
Motion pictures—History.
Civilization—History.
Great Britain—History.
Film genres.
Motion pictures and television.
British Cinema and TV.
Film History.
Cultural History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Genre.
Screen Studies.