Michael Hammond is Emeritus Fellow in Film History at the University of Southampton. His international reputation rests on a large body of work that spans both silent film history and contemporary film and television studies. In the field of silent film history he is known for his monographs, The Big Show: British Cinema Culture in the Great War, 1914–1918 (2006) and The Great War in Hollywood Memory, 1919–1939 (2019). He is co-editor of British Silent Cinema in the Great War (2011) and The Great War and the Moving Image (2017).