British Silent Cinema and the Great War

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