1st Edition

The Great War and the Moving Image

Edited By Michael Hammond, Adrian Smith Copyright 2018
150 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

The Great War and the Moving Image focuses upon the Allied war effort on the Western Front and in the Mediterranean. In doing so, the book addresses topics ranging from how carefully selected images projected a positive portrayal of ambulance trains, through film’s instructional role promoting self-sufficiency on the home front, to the vital role of makeshift YMCA cinemas both sides of the... Read more

Introduction: The Great War and the Moving Image Adrian Smith and Michael Hammond

1. Writing History on the Page and Screen: Mediating Conflict through Britain’s First World War Ambulance Trains Rebecca Harrison

2. Everybody’s Business: Film, Food and Victory in the First World War Stella Hockenhull

3. Forgetting their troubles for a while: Australian soldiers’ experiences of cinema during the First World War Amanda Laugesen

4. Putting the moral into morale: YMCA cinemas on the Western Front, 1914-1918 Emma Hanna

5. ‘Snapshots’: Local Cinema Cultures in the Great War Leen Engelen, Leslie Midkiff DeBauche and Michael Hammond

6. Pixel Lions – the image of the soldier in First World War computer games Chris Kempshall

Biography

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.