Description: Further DetailsTitle: Celluloid War MemorialsCondition: NewEAN: 9780859899987ISBN: 9780859899987Publisher: University of Exeter PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/22/2016Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Mark ConnellyLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The British Instructional Films Company and the Memory of the Great WarISBN-10: 0859899985Description: The films made by the British Instructional Films (BIF) company in the decade following the end of the First World War helped to shape the way in which that war was remembered. This is both a work of cinema history and a study of the public’s memory of WW1. By the early twenties, the British film industry was struggling to cope with the power of Hollywood and government help was needed to guarantee its survival. The 1927 Cinematograph Films Act was intended to support the domestic film industry by requiring British cinemas to show a quota of domestically produced films each year. The Act was not the sole saviour of British cinema, but the government intervention did allow the domestic industry to exploit the talents of an emerging group of younger filmmakers including Michael Balcon, Walter Summers and Alfred Hitchcock, who directed the most influential of these BIF war constructions.This book shows that the films are micro-histories revealing huge amounts about perceptions of the Great War, national and imperial identities, the role of cinema as a shaper of attitudes and identities, power relations between Britain and the USA and the nature of popular culture as an international contest in its own right.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBBook Series: Exeter Studies in Film HistoryGenre: HistoryTopic: Military History, Films & TVRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Celluloid War Memorials
Title: Celluloid War Memorials
EAN: 9780859899987
ISBN: 9780859899987
Release Date: 12/22/2016
Release Year: 2016
Subtitle: The British Instructional Films Company and the Memory of the Gre
ISBN-10: 0859899985
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: History
Topic: Films & TV
Number of Pages: 339 Pages
Publication Name: Celluloid War Memorials : the British Instructional Films Company and the Memory of the Great War
Language: English
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Item Height: 1.3 in
Subject: Military / World War I, Europe / General, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year: 2016
Item Weight: 25 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Performing Arts, History
Author: Mark Connelly
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Exeter Studies in Film History Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
