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OverviewWinner 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 Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chris GrosvenorPublisher: University of Exeter Press Imprint: University of Exeter Press Weight: 0.560kg ISBN: 9781905816736ISBN 10: 1905816731 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 29 October 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviewsThis is an important contribution. Work on cinema tends to privilege official views and opinions on cinema, and analyse it in a very top-down manner. This work shows the 'nuts and bolts' of how cinema was delivered to soldiers and what soldiers made of cinema. Mark Connelly, Professor of Modern British History, University of Kent This is an important contribution. Work on cinema tends to privilege official views and opinions on cinema, and analyse it in a very top-down manner. This work shows the 'nuts and bolts' of how cinema was delivered to soldiers and what soldiers made of cinema. --Mark Connelly, Professor of Modern British History, University of Kent This is an important contribution. Work on cinema tends to privilege official views and opinions on cinema, and analyse it in a very top-down manner. This work shows the 'nuts and bolts' of how cinema was delivered to soldiers and what soldiers made of cinema. --Mark Connelly, Professor of Modern British History, University of Kent Author InformationChris 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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