Contents: SECTION A -Putting the pioneers in context - films and filmmakers before the First World War: But the khaki-covered camera is the latest thing - the Boer War cinema and visual culture in Britain, Simon Popple; James Williamson's rescue narratives, Frank Gray; Cecil Hepworth, Alice in Wonderland and the development of the narrative film, Andrew Higson; Putting the world before you - the Charles Urban story, Luke McKernan; 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: Indecent Incentives to Vice- Regulating Films and Audience Behaviour from the 1890s to the 1910s, Lise Shapiro. Nothing more than a 'craze' - cinema building in Britain from 1909 to 1914, Nicholas Hiley; Letters to America: a case study in the exhibition and reception of American films in Britain, 1914-18, Mike Hammond. Section C A full supporting programme - serials, cinemagazines, interest films, travelogues and travel films, and film music in the 1910s and 1920s: British series and serials in the silent era, Alex Marlow-Mann; The spice of the perfect programme - the weekly magazine film during the silent period, Jenny Hammerton; Shakespeare's country - the national poet, English identity and British silent cinema, Roberta E. Pearson; Representing African life - from ethnographic exhibitions to Nionga and Stampede, Emma Sandon; 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: Writing screen plays - Stannard and Hitchcock, Charles Barr; H.G. Wells and British silent cinema - the war of the worlds, Sylvia Hardy; War-torn Dionysus - the silent passion of Ivor Novello, Michael Williams; 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: The Film Society and the creation of an alternative film culture in Britain in the 1920s, Jamie Sexton; Towards a critical practice - Ivor Montagu and British film culture in the 1920s, Gerry Turvey; 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: A guide to bibliographic and archival sources on British cinema before the First World War, Stephen Bottomore; A guide to bibliographic and archival sources on British cinema from the First World War to the coming of sound, Jon Burrows; Bibliography - British cinema before 1930.
