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Author:

Hammond, Michael, 1954-

Title:

The big show : British cinema culture in the Great War, 1914-1918 / Michael Hammond.

Publisher:

University of Exeter Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xi, 304 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1914-1918--Motion pictures and the war.
Motion pictures--Social aspects--Great Britain.
Motion picture audiences--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Culture in motion pictures.

Notes:

Filmography: p. 294-296. Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-293) and index.

Contents:

Local tracks: exhibition culture in Southhampton -- The crisis of total war and new audiences -- Anonymity and recognition: the roll of honour films -- Education or entertainment? Public and private interpretations of Battle of the Somme -- Artful and instructive: respectability and The birth of a nation -- Civilization: a super-film at the Palladium, 1917 -- Chaplin: a transatlantic vernacular -- 1918: anguished voices and comic slackers.

Series:

Exeter studies in film history

ISBN:

0859897583 (hbk.)
9780859897587 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60513139

LCCN:

2006491837

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)