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The Great War and the Moving Image focuses upon the Allied war effort on the Western Front and in the Mediterranean. In doing so, the book addresses topics ranging from how carefully selected images projected a positive portrayal of ambulance trains, through film's instructional role promoting self-sufficiency on the home front, to the vital role of makeshift YMCA cinemas both sides of the Channel.
With editors and contributors who are authorities on cinema in wartime Britain and on the British response to the challenge of 'total war', the volume highlights the power that the moving image had during the Great War. In the introduction, the editors consider why the First World War can be seen as the first uniquely cinematic conflict. Later, historians from Britain, Australia, and America go on to explore film's pioneering role as a powerful vehicle for propaganda at home and abroad, and its contribution to maintaining morale among soldiers on the front line as well as across civilian audiences back home. The book concludes by considering the representation of trench warfare in today's hi-tech computer games.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
Contents
Introduction: The Great War and the Moving Image 1. Writing History on the Page and Screen: Mediating Conflict through Britain's First World War Ambulance Trains 2. Everybody's Business: Film, Food and Victory in the First World War 3. Forgetting their troubles for a while: Australian soldiers' experiences of cinema during the First World War 4. Putting the moral into morale: YMCA cinemas on the Western Front, 1914-1918 5. 'Snapshots': Local Cinema Cultures in the Great War 6. Pixel Lions - the image of the soldier in First World War computer games
