Michael Williams - British Silent Cinema and the Great War [2011][A]

Book Description
Publication Date: November 22, 2011
This book presents a unique insight into an extraordinary period of European history that had far-reaching significance for British cinema and for the way history itself is represented. The work collected in this volume draws from the best knowledge, enthusiasm and critical insight of leading scholars, archivists and historians specialising in British cinema. The editors are experts in the field of British silent cinema; in particular, its complex relationship to the Great War and its afterimage in popular culture. As the Great War continues to fade from living memory, it is a significant task to look back at how the cinema industry responded to that conflict as it unfolded, and how it shaped the war's memory through the 1910s and 1920s.

About the Authors
MICHAEL HAMMOND is Senior Lecturer in Film History in the English Department at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the co-editor and contributor to Contemporary American Cinema with Professor Linda Ruth Williams, and is author of The Big Show: British Cinema Culture in the Great War 1914-1918. He is presently working on a British Academy funded project entitled The After-image of the Great War in Hollywood, 1919-1939.

MICHAEL WILLIAMS is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. His monograph Ivor Novello: Screen Idol, was published in 2003. He has also written on film stardom, British cinema, landscape, sexuality and film heritage, and is currently researching the relationship between classicism and silent stardom.