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. MICHAEL HAMMOND is Senior Lecturer in Film History in the English Department at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the co-editor and contributor to 'Contemporary American Cinema' with Professor Linda Ruth Williams, and is author of 'The Big Show: British Cinema Culture in the Great War 1914-1918'. He is presently working on a British Academy funded project entitled 'The After-image of the Great War in Hollywood, 1919-1939. '. . MICHAEL WILLIAMS is SeniorLecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. His monograph 'Ivor Novello: Screen Idol', was published in 2003. He has also written on film stardom, British cinema, landscape, sexuality and film heritage, and is currently researching the relationship between classicism and silent stardom. INDICE: Introduction: Goodbye to All That or Business As Usual? History and Memory of the Great War in British Cinema; 'M.Hammond' &' M.Williams - 'PARTI: THE WAR - The Battle of the Somme (1916) as Industrial Process Film; 'M.Hammond - 'British and Colonial: What the Company Did in the Great War; 'G.Turvey - ''Improper Practices' in Great War British Cinemas; 'P.Moody - ''Shells, Shots and Shrapnel': Picture-goer Goes to War; 'J.Bryan - 'PART II: AFTERMATH: MEMORY AND MEMORIAL - 'A Victory and a Defeat as Glorious as a Victory': 'The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands' (Walter Summers, 1927); 'A.Sargeant - 'Remembering the Great War in 1920s British Cinema; 'C.Gledhill - 'Remembrance, Re-membering, and Recollection: Walter Summers and the British War Filmof the 1920s; 'L.Napper - ''Fire, Blood and Steel': Memory and Spectacle in 'The Guns of Loos' (Sinclair Hill, 1928); 'M.Williams - 'PART III: NOTES FROM THE ARCHIVE - Hello to All This: Music, Memory and Re-visiting the Great War; 'N.Brand - 'The Dead, Battlefield Burials and the Unveiling of War Memorials inFilms of the Great War Era; 'T.Haggith - 'Anticipating the Blitz Spirit in First World War Propaganda Film: Evidence in the Imperial War Museum Archive; 'R.Smither - ''How Shall We Look Again'?: Revisiting the Archive in British Silent Film and the Great War; 'B.Dixon' &' L.Porter - 'Bibliography - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-29262-8
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 26/08/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés