British Silent Cinema and the Great War - by M Hammond & M Williams (Hardcover)

About the Book

"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. "--

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

NEIL BRAND Silent film accompanist JANE BRYAN Teacher of silent cinema history, University of East Anglia, UK BRYONY DIXON Curator at the BFI National Archive and co-director of the annual British Silent Film Festival CHRISTINE GLEDHILL Visiting Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Sunderland, UK TOBY HAGGITH Senior Curator in the Department of Research at the Imperial War Museum, UK PAUL MOODY Ph.D. Student at The London School of Economics, teacher of Film and Television History for the Open University and Video and Audio trainer for Brunel University's Journalism Department, UK LAWRENCE NAPPER Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College, London, UK LARAINE PORTER Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at De Montfort University, UK AMY SARGEANT Reader in Film at the University of Warwick, UK ROGER SMITHER Keeper of the Film and Video Archive at the Imperial War Museum 1990-2010 GERRY TURVEY Former lecturer in Film Studies and currently a trustee of the Phoenix Cinema, North London, UK