Cinema on the Front Line

British Soldiers and Cinema in the First World War
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-905816-73-6
Verlag: University of Exeter Press

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 602 g

Reihe: Exeter Studies in Film History

Winner of the Theatre Library Association’s 2021 Richard Wall Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of recorded performance.

Cinema on the Front Line offers the first comprehensive history and analysis of how the medium of cinema intersected with the lives of British soldiers during the First World War. Documenting the wartime use of cinema, from domestic recruitment drives to makeshift theatrical venues established on the front line, and then in convalescent hospitals and camps, this book provides evidence of the previously unacknowledged importance of the medium as recreational support and entertainment for soldiers living through the trauma of conflict.

Presenting the fruits of his archival research, the author makes extensive use of war diaries and other military records to foreground the voices and perspectives of British soldiers themselves. Including discussion of over 70 films, this book will interest specialists in British film history, propaganda film, exhibition and audience studies, as well as historians and students of the First World War, propaganda and the military.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47788/LAML7430

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grosvenor, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Introduction


Chapter 1: Cinema, Recruitment Campaigns and the Outbreak of War


Chapter 2: The BEF and Film Exhibition on the Western Front


Chapter 3: Soldier Cinema Audiences on the Front Line


Chapter 4: A War of Representation: Soldiers and Topical Films


Chapter 5: The Cinema, Recovery and Rehabilitation


Afterword


Appendix


Bibliography


Index

Über Autor(innen)

Grosvenor, Chris
Chris Grosvenor has a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Exeter and has published in several journals including Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. His research has been featured on ITV News and BBC Radio Devon.

Chris Grosvenor has a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Exeter and has published in several journals including Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. His research has been featured on ITV News and BBC Radio Devon.

Winner of the Philip M. Taylor IAMHIST-Routledge Prize for the Best Article by a New Scholar.