The Big Show looks at the role played by cinema in British
cultural life during World War One.
In writing the definitive account of film exhibition and
reception in Britain in the years 1914 to 1918, Michael Hammond
shows how the British film industry and British audiences responded
to the traumatic effects of the Great War.
The author contends that the War's significant effect was to
expedite the cultural acceptance of cinema into the fabric of
British social life. As a result, by 1918, cinema had emerged as
the predominant leisure form in British social life. Through a
consideration of the films, the audience, the industry and the
various regulating and censoring bodies, the book explores the
impact of the war on the newly established cinema culture. It also
studies the contribution of the new medium to the public's
perception of the war
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