British silent cinema and The Great War
By: edited by Michael Hammond, Michael Williams
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780230292628
Subjects: Motion pictures; World War, 1914-1918; Silent films; Motion pictures and the war; Historical films; History and criticism; History
Description: "This book presents a unique insight into an extraordinary period of European history that had far-reaching significance for British cinema and for the way history itself is represented. The work collected in this volume draws from the best knowledge, enthusiasm and critical insight of leading scholars, archivists and historians specialising in British cinema. The editors are experts in the field of British silent cinema; in particular, its complex relationship to the Great War and its afterimage in popular culture. As the Great War continues to fade from living memory, it is a significant task to look back at how the cinema industry responded to that conflict as it unfolded, and how it shaped the war's memory through the 1910s and 1920s. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-191) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Goodbye to all that or business as usual?: history and memory of the Great War in British cinema  -- Michael Hammond and Michael Williams -- Part I.; title: The War: -- 2.; title: The Battle of the Somme (1916): an industrial process film that 'Wounds the heart'  -- Michael Hammond; -- 3.; title: British and Colonial: what the company did in the Great War  -- Gerry Turvey; -- 4.; title: 'Improper Practices' in Great War British cinemas  -- Paul Moody; -- 5.; title: 'Shells, Shots and Shrapnel': Picturegoer goes to war  -- Jane Bryan -- Part II. Aftermath: Memory and Memorial: -- 6.; title: 'A Victory and a Defeat as Glorious as a Victory': The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands (Walter Summers, 1927)  -- Amy Sargeant; -- 7.; title: Remembering the war in 1920s British cinema  -- Christine Gledhill; -- 8.; title: Remembrance, re-membering, and recollection: Walter Summers and the British war film of the 1920s  -- Lawrence Napper; -- 9.; title: 'Fire, Blood and Steel': memory and spectacle in The Guns of Loos (Sinclair Hill, 1928)  -- Michael Williams -- Part III.; title: Notes from the Archive: -- 10.; title: Hello to all this: music, memory and revisiting the Great War  -- Neil Brand; -- 11.; title: The dead, battlefield burials and the unveiling of war memorials in films of the Great War era  -- Toby Haggith; -- 12.; title: Anticipating the Blitz Spirit in First World War propaganda film: evidence in the Imperial War Museum Archive  -- Roger Smither; -- 13.; title: 'How Shall We Look Again'?: revisiting the archive in British silent film and the Great War -- Bryony Dixon and Laraine Porter.