The Big Show looks at the role played by cinema in British cultural life during World War One. Hammond shows how the British film industry and British audiences responded to the traumatic effects of the War, and contends that the War’s significant effect was to expedite the cultural acceptance of cinema into the fabric of British social life.

Hardback    £75.00
9780859897587 | Published: 2006

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9780859899000 | Published: 2015

British Theatre and the Red Peril examines how communism was portrayed in plays in the British theatre between 1917 and 1945, and how at a time when the capitalist system seemed on the verge of collapse, the theatre played a significant part in communicating and manipulating political propaganda in order to influence audiences.

 

Paperback    £20.00
9780859896375 | Published: 1999

Hardback    £75.00
9780859896368 | Published: 1999