The Great War and the Moving Image

ISBN-13: 9780367234584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 140 str.

Michael Hammond; Adrian Smith

Opis

This book focuses on the Allied war effort on the Western Front and in the Mediterranean. It explores film’s pioneering role as propaganda; and its role in maintaining morale among soldiers on the front line and civilian audiences back home. It was published as a special issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Great War and the Moving Image  1. Writing History on the Page and Screen: Mediating Conflict through Britain’s First World War Ambulance Trains  2. Everybody’s Business: Film, Food and Victory in the First World War  3. Forgetting their troubles for a while: Australian soldiers’ experiences of cinema during the First World War  4. Putting the moral into morale: YMCA cinemas on the Western Front, 1914-1918  5. ‘Snapshots’: Local Cinema Cultures in the Great War  6. Pixel Lions – the image of the soldier in First World War computer games

O autorze

Michael Hammond is an Associate Professor in Film History at the University of Southampton, UK. He has written extensively about cinema and the First World War, including The Big Show: British Cinema Culture and The Great War (2006). His current research is concerned with the impact of the First World War on the aesthetic practices of the Hollywood studios between 1919 and 1939. Adrian Smith is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Southampton, UK, and is currently writing the authorised biography of the industrialist and aviation pioneer Sir Richard Fairey. He has previously written biographies of Lord Mountbatten and the First World War ace Mick Mannock, and a history of the New Statesman.