Young and Innocent? : The Cinema in Britain, 1896-1930 Book

List of Illustrations

Picture Credits

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Andrew Higson

SECTION A – Putting the Pioneers in Context: Films and Filmmakers before the First World War

1. “But the Khaki-Covered Camera is the Latest Thing”: The Boer War Cinema and Visual Culture in Britain

    Simon Popple

2. James Williamson’s Rescue Narratives

    Frank Gray

3. Cecil Hepworth, Alice in Wonderland and the Development of the Narrative Film

    Andrew Higson

4. Putting the World before You: The Charles Urban Story

    Luke McKernan

5. “It would be a Mistake to Strive for Subtlety of Effect”: Richard III and Populist, Pantomime Shakespeare in the 1910s

    Jon Burrows

SECTION B – Going to the Cinema: Audiences, Exhibition and Reception from the 1890s to the 1910s

6. “Indecent Incentives to Vice”: Regulating Films and Audience Behaviour from the 1890s to the 1910s

    Lise Shapiro Sanders 

7. “Nothing More than a ‘Craze’”: Cinema Building in Britain from 1909 to 1914

    Nicholas Hiley

8. Letters to America: A Case Study in the Exhibition and Reception of American Films in Britain, 1914-1918

    Michael Hammond

SECTION C – A Full Supporting Programme: Serials, Cinemagazines, Interest Films, Travelogues and Travel Films, and Film Music in the 1910s and 1920s

9. British Series and Serials in the Silent Era

    Alex Marlow-Mann

10. The Spice of the Perfect Programme: The Weekly Magazine Film during the Silent Period

    Jenny Hammerton

11. Shakespeare’s Country: The National Poet, English Identity and British Silent Cinema

    Roberta E. Pearson

12. Representing “African Life”: From Ethnographic Exhibitions to Nionga and Stampede

    Emma Sandon 

13. Distant Trumpets: The Score to The Flag Lieutenant and Music of the British Silent Cinema

    Neil Brand

SECTION D – The Feature Film at Home and Abroad: Mainstream Cinema From the End of the First World War to the Coming of Sound

14. Writing Screen Plays: Stannard and Hitchcock

    Charles Barr

15. H.G. Wells and British Silent Cinema: The War of the Worlds

    Sylvia Hardy

16. War-Torn Dionysus: The Silent Passion of Ivor Novello

    Michael Williams

17. Tackling the Big Boy of Empire: British Film in Australia, 1918-1931

    Mike Walsh

SECTION E – Taking the Cinema Seriously: The Emergence of an Intellectual Film Culture in the 1920s

18. The Film Society and the Creation of an Alternative Film Culture in Britain in the 1920s

    Jamie Sexton

19. Towards a Critical Practice: Ivor Montagu and British Film Culture in the 1920s

    Gerry Turvey

20. Writing the Cinema into Daily Life: Iris Barry and the Emergence of British Film Criticism in the 1920s

    Haidee Wasson

SECTION F – Bibliographical and Archival Resources

21. A Guide to Bibliographical and Archival Sources on British Cinema before the First World War

    Stephen Bottomore

22. A Guide to Bibliographical and Archival Sources on British Cinema from the First World War to the Coming of Sound

    Jon Burrows

23. Bibliography: British Cinema Before 1930

    compiled by Andrew Higson, Michael Williams and Jo-Anne Blanco

Notes on Contributors

Index