| Description |
xi, 304 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Exeter studies in film history |
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Exeter studies in film history.
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| Contents |
Local tracks: exhibition culture in Southhampton -- The crisis of total war and new audiences -- Anonymity and recognition: the roll of honour films -- Education or entertainment? Public and private interpretations of Battle of the Somme -- Artful and instructive: respectability and The birth of a nation -- Civilization: a super-film at the Palladium, 1917 -- Chaplin: a transatlantic vernacular -- 1918: anguished voices and comic slackers |
| Summary |
"In writing the definitive account of film exhibition and reception in Britain in the years 1914 to 1918, Michael Hammond shows how the British film industry and British audiences responded to the traumatic effects of the Great War. The author contends that the War's most significant effect was to expedite the cultural acceptance of cinema into the fabric of British social life. As a result, by 1918, cinema's function had shifted from public service educator to therapeutic pastime, and film-going had emerged as the predominant leisure form in Britain. Through a consideration of the films, the audience, the industry and the various regulating and censoring bodies, the book explores the impact of the Great War on the newly established cinema culture. It also studies the contribution of the new medium to the public's perception of the War."--Cover p. 4 |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: pages 294-296 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-293) and index |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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Motion picture audiences -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Culture in motion pictures.
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| LC no. |
2006491837 |
| ISBN |
9780859897587 (hbk.) |
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0859897583 (hbk.) |
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