Author: Lawrence

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)

‘Have you had the new Influenza yet?’: The Bioscope, the Cinema and the Epidemic, 1918-19

They didn’t take it seriously at first in 1918 either. ‘Have you had the new Influenza yet?’ asked the ‘Kinetosities’ gossip column in the Bioscope in early July. The column observed that what with all the pressures of running a wartime cinema, ‘the prospects of twelve extra drills and the twenty hours police duty on … Continue reading ‘Have you had the new Influenza yet?’: The Bioscope, the Cinema and the Epidemic, 1918-19 →