Author: Anthony Aldgate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Charts Britain's reaction to World War II by examining 13 key films produced between 1939 and 1945. Illustrated with stills, the work analyzes each film, drawing from official documentation to explore film as a medium for propaganda. This edition features two new chapters and a filmography.
Britain Can Take it
Author: Anthony Aldgate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Charts Britain's reaction to World War II by examining 13 key films produced between 1939 and 1945. Illustrated with stills, the work analyzes each film, drawing from official documentation to explore film as a medium for propaganda. This edition features two new chapters and a filmography.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Charts Britain's reaction to World War II by examining 13 key films produced between 1939 and 1945. Illustrated with stills, the work analyzes each film, drawing from official documentation to explore film as a medium for propaganda. This edition features two new chapters and a filmography.
Nationalising Femininity
Author: Christine Gledhill
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719042591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
What was the relation between gender and nation when the waiting woman was displaced by the mobile woman and homes were flattened by bombs? What happened to notions of femininity, sexual difference and class as women moved into the workplace and donned dungarees, military uniforms and utility clothing?
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719042591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
What was the relation between gender and nation when the waiting woman was displaced by the mobile woman and homes were flattened by bombs? What happened to notions of femininity, sexual difference and class as women moved into the workplace and donned dungarees, military uniforms and utility clothing?
The British Cinema Book
Author: Robert Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
No Marketing Blurb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
No Marketing Blurb
Millions Like Us'?
Author: Visiting Senior Fellow Department of Psychology Nicky Hayes
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853237631
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This collection of essays brings together the latest historical research on cultural production and reception during the Second World War. It covers the way in which cultural provision was viewed by the labour movement and industry.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853237631
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This collection of essays brings together the latest historical research on cultural production and reception during the Second World War. It covers the way in which cultural provision was viewed by the labour movement and industry.
British Cinema, Past and Present
Author: Justine Ashby
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135125082
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
British Cinema: Past and Present responds to the commercial and critical success of British film in the 1990s. Providing a historical perspective to the contemporary resurgence of British cinema, this unique anthology brings together leading international scholars to investigate the rich diversity of British film production, from the early sound period of the 1930s to the present day. The contributors address: * British Cinema Studies and the concept of national cinema * the distribution and reception of British films in the US and Europe * key genres, movements and cycles of British cinema in the 1940s, 50s and 60s * questions of authorship and agency, with case studies of individual studios, stars, producers and directors * trends in British cinema, from propaganda films of the Second World War to the New Wave and the 'Swinging London' films of the Sixties * the representation of marginalised communities in films such as Trainspotting and The Full Monty * the evolution of social realism from Saturday Night, Sunday Morning to Nil By Mouth * changing approaches to Northern Ireland and the Troubles in films like The Long Good Friday and Alan Clarke's Elephant * contemporary 'art' and 'quality' cinema, from heritage drama to the work of Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Terence Davies and Patrick Keiller.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135125082
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
British Cinema: Past and Present responds to the commercial and critical success of British film in the 1990s. Providing a historical perspective to the contemporary resurgence of British cinema, this unique anthology brings together leading international scholars to investigate the rich diversity of British film production, from the early sound period of the 1930s to the present day. The contributors address: * British Cinema Studies and the concept of national cinema * the distribution and reception of British films in the US and Europe * key genres, movements and cycles of British cinema in the 1940s, 50s and 60s * questions of authorship and agency, with case studies of individual studios, stars, producers and directors * trends in British cinema, from propaganda films of the Second World War to the New Wave and the 'Swinging London' films of the Sixties * the representation of marginalised communities in films such as Trainspotting and The Full Monty * the evolution of social realism from Saturday Night, Sunday Morning to Nil By Mouth * changing approaches to Northern Ireland and the Troubles in films like The Long Good Friday and Alan Clarke's Elephant * contemporary 'art' and 'quality' cinema, from heritage drama to the work of Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Terence Davies and Patrick Keiller.
British Cultural Memory and the Second World War
Author: Lucy Noakes
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441104976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War. It has left a rich legacy in a range of media that continue to attract a wide audience: film, TV and radio, photography and the visual arts, journalism and propaganda, architecture, museums, music and literature. The enduring presence of the war in the public world is echoed in its ongoing centrality in many personal and family memories, with stories of the Second World War being recounted through the generations. This collection brings together recent historical work on the cultural memory of the war, examining its presence in family stories, in popular and material culture and in acts of commemoration in Britain between 1945 and the present.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441104976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War. It has left a rich legacy in a range of media that continue to attract a wide audience: film, TV and radio, photography and the visual arts, journalism and propaganda, architecture, museums, music and literature. The enduring presence of the war in the public world is echoed in its ongoing centrality in many personal and family memories, with stories of the Second World War being recounted through the generations. This collection brings together recent historical work on the cultural memory of the war, examining its presence in family stories, in popular and material culture and in acts of commemoration in Britain between 1945 and the present.
BRITISH WAR FILMS, 1939 - 45
Author: S. P. Mackenzie
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1852852585
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The cinema was the most popular form of entertainment during the Second World War. Film was a critically important medium for influencing opinion. Films, such as In Which We Serve and One of Our Aircraft is Missing, shaped the British people's perceptions of the conflict. British War Films, 1939-45 is an account of the feature films produced during the war, rather than government documentaries and official propaganda, making the book an important index of British morale and values at a time of desperate national crisis.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1852852585
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The cinema was the most popular form of entertainment during the Second World War. Film was a critically important medium for influencing opinion. Films, such as In Which We Serve and One of Our Aircraft is Missing, shaped the British people's perceptions of the conflict. British War Films, 1939-45 is an account of the feature films produced during the war, rather than government documentaries and official propaganda, making the book an important index of British morale and values at a time of desperate national crisis.
British Cinema and the Second World War
Author: Robert Murphy
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826478979
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
The author provides a decade-by-decade analysis of every film ever made in Britain about World War II. It provides a comprehensive account of how Britain has portrayed the war through films.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826478979
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
The author provides a decade-by-decade analysis of every film ever made in Britain about World War II. It provides a comprehensive account of how Britain has portrayed the war through films.
National Fictions
Author: Geoff Hurd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
No Marketing Blurb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
No Marketing Blurb
One World, Big Screen
Author: M. Todd Bennett
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807835749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
World War II coincided with cinema's golden age. Movies now considered classics were created at a time when all sides in the war were coming to realize the great power of popular films to motivate the masses. Through multinational research, One World,
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807835749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
World War II coincided with cinema's golden age. Movies now considered classics were created at a time when all sides in the war were coming to realize the great power of popular films to motivate the masses. Through multinational research, One World,