Young and innocent? : the cinema in Britain, 1896-1930 /
Higson, Andrew.
Exeter : University of Exeter Press,
2002.
In-depth study of the development of British cinema in the early years of the twentieth century.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-404) and index.
'But the khaki-covered camera is the latest thing' : the Boer war cinema and visual culture in Britain / Simon Popple -- James Williamson's rescue narratives / Frank Gray -- Cecil Hepworth, Alice in Wonderland and the development of the narrative film / Andrew Higson -- Putting the world before you : the Charles Urban story / Luke McKernan -- 'It would be a mistake to strive for subtlety of effect' : Richard III and populist, pantomime Shakespeare in the 1910s / Jon Burrows -- 'Indecent incentives to vice' : regulating films and audience behaviour from the 1890s to the 1910s / Lise Shapiro Sanders -- 'Nothing more than a "craze" ' : cinema building in Britain from 1909 to 1914 / Nicholas Hiley -- Letters to America : a case study in the exhibition and reception of American films in Britain, 1914-1918 / Michael Hammond -- British series and serials in the silent era / Alex Marlow-Mann -- The spice of the perfect programme : the weekly magazine film during the silent period / Jenny Hammerton -- Shakespeare's country : the national poet, English identity and British silent cinema / Roberta E. Pearson -- Representing 'African life' : from ethnographic exhibitions to Nionga and Stampede / Emma Sandon -- Distant trumpets : the score to The flag lieutenant and music of the British silent cinema / Neil Brand -- Writing screen plays : Stannard and Hitchcock / Charles Barr -- H.G. Wells and British silent cinema : the war of the worlds / Sylvia Hardy -- War-torn Dionysus : the silent passion of Ivor Novello / Michael Williams -- Tackling the big boy of empire : British film in Australia, 1918-1931 / Mike Walsh -- The film society and the creation of an alternative film culture in Britain in the 1920s / Jamie Sexton -- Towards a critical practice : Ivor Montagu and British film culture in the 1920s / Gerry Turvey -- Writing the cinema into daily life : Iris Barry and the emergence of British film criticism in the 1920s / Haidee Wasson -- A guide to bibliographical and archival sources on British cinema before the First World War / Stephen Bottomore -- A guide to bibliographical and archival sources on British cinema from the First World War to the coming of sound / Jon Burrows -- Bibliography : British cinema before 1930 / compiled by Andrew Higson, Michael Williams and Jo-Anne Blanco.
In-depth study of the development of British cinema in the early years of the twentieth century.
Motion picture industry
Silent films
Motion pictures