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Author : P. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349193172
The essays which appear in this book for the most part originated as papers delivered at a conference on Britain and the cinema in the Second World War held in London in May 1985.
Author : Anthony Aldgate,Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89052862976
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.
Author : Philip M. Taylor
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015025038913
The essays which appear in this book for the most part originated as papers delivered at a conference on Britain and the cinema in the Second World War held in London in May 1985.
Author : P.M. Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1120929723
Author : Robert Murphy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0826478972
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.
Author : John Whiteclay Chambers II,David Culbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199728732
The immediacy and perceived truth of the visual image, as well as film and television's ability to propel viewers back into the past, place the genre of the historical film in a special category. War films--including antiwar films--have established the prevailing public image of war in the twentieth century. For American audiences, the dominant image of trench warfare in World War I has been provided by feature films such as All Quiet on the Western Front and Paths of Glory. The image of combat in the Second World War has been shaped by films like Sands of Iwo Jima and The Longest Day. And despite claims for the alleged impact of widespread television coverage of the Vietnam War, it is actually films such as Apocalypse Now and Platoon which have provided the most powerful images of what is seen as the "reality" of that much disputed conflict. But to what degree does history written "with lightning," as Woodrow Wilson allegedly said, represent the reality of the past? To what extent is visual history an oversimplification, or even a distortion of the past? Exploring the relationship between moving images and the society and culture in which they were produced and received, World War II, Film, and History addresses the power these images have had in determining our perception and memories of war. Examining how the public memory of war in the twentieth century has often been created more by a manufactured past than a remembered one, a leading group of historians discusses films dating from the early 1930s through the early 1990s, created by filmmakers the world over, from the United States and Germany to Japan and the former Soviet Union. For example, Freda Freiberg explains how the inter-racial melodramatic Japanese feature film China Nights, in which a manly and protective Japanese naval officer falls in love with a beautiful young Chinese street waif and molds her into a cultured, submissive wife, proved enormously popular with wartime Japanese and helped justify the invasion of China in the minds of many Japanese viewers. Peter Paret assesses the historical accuracy of Kolberg as a depiction of an unsuccessful siege of that German city by a French Army in 1807, and explores how the film, released by Hitler's regime in January 1945, explicitly called for civilian sacrifice and last-ditch resistance. Stephen Ambrose contrasts what we know about the historical reality of the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, with the 1962 release of The Longest Day, in which the major climactic moment in the film never happened at Normandy. Alice Kessler-Harris examines The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, a 1982 film documentary about women defense workers on the American home front in World War II, emphasizing the degree to which the documentary's engaging main characters and its message of the need for fair and equal treatment for women resonates with many contemporary viewers. And Clement Alexander Price contrasts Men of Bronze, William Miles's fine documentary about black American soldiers who fought in France in World War I, with Liberators, the controversial documentary by Miles and Nina Rosenblum which incorrectly claimed that African-American troops liberated Holocaust survivors at Dachau in World War II. In today's visually-oriented world, powerful images, even images of images, are circulated in an eternal cycle, gaining increased acceptance through repetition. History becomes an endless loop, in which repeated images validate and reconfirm each other. Based on archival materials, many of which have become only recently available, World War II, Film, and History offers an informative and a disturbing look at the complex relationship between national myths and filmic memory, as well as the dangers of visual images being transformed into "reality."
Author : Neil Rattigan
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0838638627
Third, that the condition of total war in which Britain found itself a short time after the commencement of hostilities would mean that films, and indeed, all mass/popular culture, would respond to the urgency of the situation by taking a special interest in representations of British society. And fourth, following on from this, that British films of the Second World War would, one way or another, be agents of propaganda. From these propositions, the book examines just what these films had to say about social class in the images of Britain they were promulgating, with the corollaries of just how were they saying it, and why were they saying it. Alongside this is a concern with what propaganda purposes were being met by these films."--Jacket.
Author : S. P. MacKenzie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474228473
This new, updated edition of The Battle of Britain on Screen examines in depth the origins, development and reception of the major dramatic screen representations of 'The Few' in the Battle of Britain produced over the past 75 years. Paul MacKenzie explores both continuity and change in the presentation of a wartime event that acquired and retains near-mythical dimensions in popular consciousness and has been represented many times in feature films and television dramas. Alongside relevant technical developments, the book also examines the social, cultural, and political changes occurring in the second half of the 20th century and first decade of current century that helped shape how the battle came to be framed dramatically. This edition contains a new chapter looking at the portrayal of the Battle of Britain at the time of its 70th anniversary. Through its perceptive demonstration of how our memory of the battle has been constantly reshaped through film and television, The Battle of Britain on Screen provides students of the Second World War, 20th-century Britain and film history with a thorough and complex understanding of an iconic historical event.
Author : Roger Manvell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036087109
Author : Christine Gledhill,Gillian Swanson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0719042593
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?
Author : Richard Farmer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0719083133
The introduction of rationing in January 1940 ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. The Food Companions investigates the cinema of this period and demonstrates the cultural impact that rationing and food control had on both government propaganda and commercial feature films. Combining archival research, detailed film analysis, and the extensive use of contemporary documents and resources, this book is the first to fully address the extensive propaganda work of the Ministry of Food, both inside and outside the cinema. It also explores the tensions contained in images of communal dining, investigating the role that food played in Gainsborough’s narratives of excess and identifying and analyzing a cycle of black-market feature films. Lively and illuminating, The Food Companions will be welcomed by film scholars, historians, students, and anyone who has ever wondered about the important contribution that tea made during the war to shaping ideas of Britishness.
Author : Anthony Aldgate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0755604091
At the outbreak of the Second World War, all cinemas in Britain were closed. Ten days later, they were opened again as a valuable way of boosting morale and a principal source of recreation for the nation at war. Feature films were not just escapist entertainment; they provided instruction and information, and over the next six years, some 300 feature films and thousands of short films and news reels were produced in what is now seen as British cinema's 'finest hour'. "Britain Can Take It" charts this momentous period through the eyes of thirteen key films. Aldgate and Richards make use of key resources, from scripts and box-office returns to official Home Office documents and censorship archives, to bring these films to vivid life. In telling their stories, the authors also recreate the society, the politics and war-time conditions in which they appeared and flourished. This new edition of "Britain Can Take It" features a new chapter on Launder and Gilliat's 1943 film on women factory workers, "Millions Like Us."
Author : Visiting Senior Fellow Department of Psychology Nicky Hayes
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0853237638
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.
Author : S. P. MacKenzie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826446442
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, 1939-1945 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.
Author : S. P. Mackenzie
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781852852580
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.
