British Silent Cinema and the Great War
Author | : M. Hammond |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2011-10-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230321663 |
ISBN-13 | : 0230321666 |
Rating | : 4/5 (666 Downloads) |
Download or read book British Silent Cinema and the Great War written by M. Hammond and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book presents for the first time detailed histories of the impact of the Great War on British cinema in the silent period, from actual war footage to fiction filmmaking. In doing so it explores how cinema helped to shape the public memory of the war during the 1920s.