Cinema on the Front Line British Soldiers and Cinema in the First World War - 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

ISBN:	9781905816736
Publisher:	University of Exeter Press
Imprint:	University of Exeter Press
Published date:	29 Oct 2021
DEWEY:	791.43658403
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	256
Weight:	560g
Height:	164mm
Width:	241mm
Spine width:	24mm

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