Research Catalog

Title

Celluloid war memorials : the British Instructional Films Company and the memory of the Great War / Mark Connelly.

Author

Connelly, Mark

Publication

Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2016.

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Description

ix, 329 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Creating Celluloid War Memorials for the British Empire looks at the British Instructional Film company and its production of war re-enactments and documentaries during the mid to late 1920s. It is both a work of cinema history and a study of the public’s memory of World War I. As Mark Connelly shows, these films, made in the decade following the end of the war, helped to shape the way in which that war was remembered, and may be understood as microhistories that reveal vital information 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 United States, and the nature of popular culture. --

Series Statement

Exeter studies in film history

Uniform Title

Exeter studies in film history.

Subject

• British Instructional Films
• World War, 1914-1918 > Motion pictures and the war
• Historical films > Great Britain > History and criticism
• Collective memory and motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Forging an Identity: The Battle of Jutland (1921) and Armageddon (1923) -- 2. Twisting the Dragon's Tail: Zeebrugge (1924) -- 3. Filming the Holy Ground of British Arms: Ypres (1925) -- 4. Retreating to Victory: Mons (1926) -- 5. Praising the Not-So-Silent Service: The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927).

ISBN

• 9780859899987
• 0859899985

OCLC

968903992

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library