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

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

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

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 316
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Published: 20 Mar 2006

ISBN 10: 0859897583
ISBN 13: 9780859897587