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British silent cinema and The Great War
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British silent cinema and The Great War

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1. Goodbye to all that or business as usual?: history and memory of the Great War in British cinema / Michael Hammond and Michael Williams
Part I. The War: 2. The Battle of the Somme (1916): an industrial process film that 'Wounds the heart' / Michael Hammond; 3. British and Colonial: what the company did in the Great War / Gerry Turvey; 4. 'Improper Practices' in Great War British cinemas / Paul Moody; 5. 'Shells, Shots and Shrapnel': Picturegoer goes to war / Jane Bryan
Part II. Aftermath: Memory and Memorial: 6. 'A Victory and a Defeat as Glorious as a Victory': The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands (Walter Summers, 1927) / Amy Sargeant; 7. Remembering the war in 1920s British cinema / Christine Gledhill; 8. Remembrance, re-membering, and recollection: Walter Summers and the British war film of the 1920s / Lawrence Napper; 9. 'Fire, Blood and Steel': memory and spectacle in The Guns of Loos (Sinclair Hill, 1928) / Michael Williams
Part III. Notes from the Archive: 10. Hello to all this: music, memory and revisiting the Great War / Neil Brand; 11. The dead, battlefield burials and the unveiling of war memorials in films of the Great War era / Toby Haggith; 12. Anticipating the Blitz Spirit in First World War propaganda film: evidence in the Imperial War Museum Archive / Roger Smither; 13. 'How Shall We Look Again'?: revisiting the archive in British silent film and the Great War / Bryony Dixon and Laraine Porter.

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British silent cinema and The Great War. ISBN 9780230292628. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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