Young and innocent?
Subtitle: the cinema in Britain, 1896-1930
By: edited by Andrew Higson.
Contributors: Higson, Andrew.
Series: Exeter studies in film history
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Exeter
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Motion picture industry -- Great Britain -- History; Silent films -- Great Britain -- History; Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-404) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'But the khaki-covered camera is the latest thing' : the Boer war cinema and visual culture in Britain / Simon Popple; title: James Williamson's rescue narratives / Frank Gray; title: Cecil Hepworth, Alice in Wonderland and the development of the narrative film / Andrew Higson; title: Putting the world before you : the Charles Urban story / Luke McKernan; title: 'It would be a mistake to strive for subtlety of effect' : Richard III and populist, pantomime Shakespeare in the 1910s / Jon Burrows; title: 'Indecent incentives to vice' : regulating films and audience behaviour from the 1890s to the 1910s / Lise Shapiro Sanders; title: 'Nothing more than a "craze" ' : cinema building in Britain from 1909 to 1914 / Nicholas Hiley; title: Letters to America : a case study in the exhibition and reception of American films in Britain, 1914-1918 / Michael Hammond; title: British series and serials in the silent era / Alex Marlow-Mann; title: The spice of the perfect programme : the weekly magazine film during the silent period / Jenny Hammerton; title: Shakespeare's country : the national poet, English identity and British silent cinema / Roberta E. Pearson; title: Representing 'African life' : from ethnographic exhibitions to Nionga and Stampede / Emma Sandon; title: Distant trumpets : the score to The flag lieutenant and music of the British silent cinema / Neil Brand; title: Writing screen plays : Stannard and Hitchcock / Charles Barr; title: H.G. Wells and British silent cinema : the war of the worlds / Sylvia Hardy; title: War-torn Dionysus : the silent passion of Ivor Novello / Michael Williams; title: Tackling the big boy of empire : British film in Australia, 1918-1931 / Mike Walsh; title: The film society and the creation of an alternative film culture in Britain in the 1920s / Jamie Sexton; title: Towards a critical practice : Ivor Montagu and British film culture in the 1920s / Gerry Turvey; title: Writing the cinema into daily life : Iris Barry and the emergence of British film criticism in the 1920s / Haidee Wasson; title: A guide to bibliographical and archival sources on British cinema before the First World War / Stephen Bottomore; title: A guide to bibliographical and archival sources on British cinema from the First World War to the coming of sound / Jon Burrows; title: Bibliography : British cinema before 1930 / compiled by Andrew Higson, Michael Williams and Jo-Anne Blanco.