{"id":33,"date":"2018-01-31T16:10:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T16:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/?p=33"},"modified":"2024-08-31T17:06:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T16:06:31","slug":"great-war-unknown-war-silent-film-fortnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/2018\/01\/31\/great-war-unknown-war-silent-film-fortnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Great War: Unknown War Silent Film Fortnight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Next month the Film Department in conjunction with the Turner Sims presents a series of screenings of silent films focusing on the film heritage of the First World War.<\/div>\n
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Highlights include Neil Brand (from\u00a0BBC4\u2019s ‘Sound of\u00a0Cinema’ and ‘Sound of Song’) sharing his unique vision of the century-old war, Stephen Horne accompanying ‘The Guns of Loos’, and a free screening of controversial Edith Cavell biopic ‘Dawn’ accompanied by the university’s own Andrew Fisher. The latter screening will be preceded by a research seminar featuring WW1 film experts Rebecca Harrison and Lawrence Napper. For more details and tickets please see the attached flyer and the Great War film page<\/div>\n
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For more information on the series, click here.\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n
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Please join us for these exciting events, and please share with your friends, family and networks<\/div>\n
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We look forward to seeing you there!<\/div>\n
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Dr. Malcolm Cook<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Next month the Film Department in conjunction with the Turner Sims presents a series of screenings of silent films focusing on the film heritage of the First World War. Highlights include Neil Brand (from\u00a0BBC4\u2019s ‘Sound of\u00a0Cinema’ and ‘Sound of Song’) sharing his unique vision of the century-old war, Stephen Horne accompanying ‘The Guns of Loos’, and a free screening of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","column","threecol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9DnLX-x","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":883,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/2025\/11\/10\/the-war-we-see-podcast-conversations-about-war-imagery\/","url_meta":{"origin":33,"position":0},"title":"The War We See podcast: Conversations about War Imagery","author":"Craig Lambert","date":"10th November 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Author Hirah Azhar, Doctoral researcher in the Department of History, University of Southampton and Imperial War Museum Blog Who decides what we see of war? 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