British Silent Cinema and the Great War

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Goodbye to All That or Business as Usual? History and Memory of the Great War in British Cinema....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
The Battle of the Somme (1916): An Industrial Process Film that ‘Wounds the Heart’....Pages 19-38
British and Colonial: What the Company Did in the Great War....Pages 39-48
‘Improper Practices’ in Great War British Cinemas....Pages 49-63
‘Shells, Shots and Shrapnel’: Picturegoer Goes to War....Pages 64-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
‘A Victory and a Defeat as Glorious as a Victory’: The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands (Walter Summers, 1927)....Pages 79-93
Remembering the War in 1920s British Cinema....Pages 94-108
Remembrance, Re-membering and Recollection: Walter Summers and the British War Film of the 1920s....Pages 109-117
‘Fire, Blood and Steel’: Memory and Spectacle in The Guns of Loos (Sinclair Hill, 1928)....Pages 118-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Hello to All This: Music, Memory and Revisiting the Great War....Pages 137-144
The Dead, Battlefield Burials and the Unveiling of War Memorials in Films of the Great War Era....Pages 145-159
Anticipating the Blitz Spirit in First World War Propaganda Film: Evidence in the Imperial War Museum Archive....Pages 160-169
‘How Shall We Look Again’? Revisiting the Archive in British Silent Film and the Great War....Pages 170-185
Back Matter....Pages 186-197