British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2026 (Call for Papers)

1920s British Cinema, Early Cinema, First World War, Phantom Rides 1 Minute

The British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2026 will take place on Friday 10th April at the Cinema Museum in Kennington. As usual, this one day event will feature a range of papers of original research on all areas of film culture in Britain and areas affected by British colonialism before 1930.

We invite proposals for papers from anyone researching in this field. Please send your proposal (200 words), plus a short biography (100 words or less) to Lawrence Napper Lawrence.1.Napper@kcl.ac.uk before 15th January 2026.

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I teach Film Studies at King's College London. I'm gonna be posting mainly about film-going in Britain in the early C20th, drawing on my own research activities. Previously I've written on British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years (University of Exeter Press, 2009), The Great War and Popular British Cinema in the 1920s (Palgrave, 2015) and Silent Cinema: Before the Pictures Got Small (Wallflower, 2017)

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