The Great War in Popular British Cinema of the 1920s: Before Journey's End

Abstract

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Peace Days in Pictureland -- A shift in language -- Before Journey's End -- Peace days in pictureland -- 1 'In the Midst of Peace, We Are at War': The British Film Trade in 1919 -- Returning ex-servicemen -- A German trade invasion? -- Political propaganda -- The reception of American war films -- Preserving a film record of the war -- 2 Battle Reconstructions and British Instructional Films -- The Battle of Jutland (Woolfe, 1921) -- Armageddon (Woolfe, 1923) -- Zeebrugge (A.V. Bramble, 1924)