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British silent cinema and The Great War

"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. "--

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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
197

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Table of Contents

1.
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.
The War: -- 2.
The Battle of the Somme (1916): an industrial process film that 'Wounds the heart' -- Michael Hammond; -- 3.
British and Colonial: what the company did in the Great War -- Gerry Turvey; -- 4.
'Improper Practices' in Great War British cinemas -- Paul Moody; -- 5.
'Shells, Shots and Shrapnel': Picturegoer goes to war -- Jane Bryan -- 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) -- Amy Sargeant; -- 7.
Remembering the war in 1920s British cinema -- Christine Gledhill; -- 8.
Remembrance, re-membering, and recollection: Walter Summers and the British war film of the 1920s -- Lawrence Napper; -- 9.
'Fire, Blood and Steel': memory and spectacle in The Guns of Loos (Sinclair Hill, 1928) -- Michael Williams -- Part III.
Notes from the Archive: -- 10.
Hello to all this: music, memory and revisiting the Great War -- Neil Brand; -- 11.
The dead, battlefield burials and the unveiling of war memorials in films of the Great War era -- Toby Haggith; -- 12.
Anticipating the Blitz Spirit in First World War propaganda film: evidence in the Imperial War Museum Archive -- Roger Smither; -- 13.
'How Shall We Look Again'?: revisiting the archive in British silent film and the Great War -- Bryony Dixon and Laraine Porter.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-191) and index.

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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/63582821
Library of Congress
D522.23 .B75 2011, PN1993-PN1999PN1993.

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 197 p. :
Number of pages
197

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25185907M
Internet Archive
britishsilentcin00will
ISBN 10
0230292623
ISBN 13
9780230292628
LCCN
2011016926
OCLC/WorldCat
713185415

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