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基本説明
Explores how cinema helped to shape the public memory of the war during the 1920s.
Full Description
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.
Contents
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 Bibliography Index
