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University of Exeter Press Celluloid War Memorials: The British Instructional Films Company and the Memory of the Great War (Exeter Studies in Film History)

Name: Celluloid War Memorials: The British Instructional Films Company and the Memory of the Great War (Exeter Studies in Film History)
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The book is a study of 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 One. These films, made in the decade following the end of the war, helped to shape the way in which that war was remembered. It seeks to understand the company's films historically within the context of the wider culture of remembrance and interpretation circulating at the time of their release, and to interrogate how far the films both contribute to, and reflect the ways that the war was understood in the immediate post-war moment. It illustrates 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. The British film industry was in the doldrums by the early twenties, unable to cope with the power of Hollywood. In an atmosphere of increasing doubt it began to request state aid to guarantee its survival, which eventually arrived through the introduction of protectionism. The 1927 Cinematograph Films Act (popularly known as the Quota Act) insisted that a certain number of films exhibited in British cinemas each year had to be of domestic production. But the Act was not the sole savior of British cinema. Rather, the government intervention allowed the domestic industry to exploit the talents of an emerging group of younger filmmakers including Michael Balcon, Water Summers and Alfred Hitchcock, who directed the most influential of these BIF war constructions.

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Brand: University of Exeter Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0859899985
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Photography & Video > Film & Video Art
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 November 2015
Listed Since: 05 March 2015

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