The Big Show: British Cinema Culture in the Great War (1914-1918) (Exeter Studies in Film History)

by Michael Hammond (Author), Michael Hammond (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2006

  $88.75

  The Big Show looks at the role played by cinema in British cultural life during World War One. Hammond shows how the British film industry and British audiences responded to the traumatic effects of the War, and contends that the War's significant effect was to expedite the cultural acceptance of cinema into the fabric of British social life.