Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Goodbye to All That or Business As Usual? History and Memory of the Great War in British Cinema / M. Hammond & M. Williams -- PART I: 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 Film of 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 in Films 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.
Summary:
"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. "-- Provided by publisher.
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