We Dive At Dawn

Author : Lt.-Comm. Kenneth Edwards
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781839741524

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We Dive at Dawn by Lt.-Comm. Kenneth Edwards Pdf

We Dive at Dawn, first published in 1941, is the authoritative and highly readable account of Royal Navy submarines during World War I (with a final chapter on submarine warfare in the early years of World War II). Written by Lt.-Commander Kenneth Edwards, the book covers a wide-range of topics: the development of the various British submarine classes, German U-boats, encounters with German and Turkish ships and aircraft, sabotage missions on land, anti-submarine techniques (nets, cables, depth-charges), accidents and rescues at sea (including gripping accounts of men escaping flooded submarines). In addition to the workings of the subs themselves, the actions of the men, so many of whom died during their service, are also well-portrayed. One cannot but help to have a great deal of respect for the submariners in, as the author puts it, "particularly hazardous service." Included are 4 maps and 16 pages of photographs.

Author : Kenneth Edwards (Commander.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Submarine warfare
ISBN : UCAL:$B16218

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We Dive at Dawn by Kenneth Edwards (Commander.) Pdf

Author : Neil Rattigan
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0838638627

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This is England by Neil Rattigan Pdf

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 : Kenneth Edwards,Roger Keyes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:464548381

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We Dive at Dawn by Kenneth Edwards,Roger Keyes Pdf

Author : S. P. MacKenzie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826446442

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British War Films, 1939-1945 by S. P. MacKenzie Pdf

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 : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781852852580

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BRITISH WAR FILMS, 1939 - 45 by S. P. Mackenzie Pdf

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.

Author : Duncan Redford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857718563

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The Submarine by Duncan Redford Pdf

'Underhand and damned un-English' was the view of submarines in Edwardian Britain. Yet by the 1960s the new nuclear powered submarines were seen by the Royal Navy as being the 'hallmark of a first class navy'. In this book Duncan Redford, a retired Royal Navy submarine officer, explores how - and why - attitudes to the submarine changed in Britain between 1900 and 1977. Using a wide array of previously unpublished sources, Redford sheds light on what the British thought about submarines, both their own and those that were used against them. Rather than providing an operational history of Britain's submarines, this book looks at naval and civilian conceptions of what submarine warfare was imagined to be like in the context of unrestricted submarine warfare, the world wars and the development of nuclear weaponry. With chapters on the coronation and jubilee reviews at Spithead, the submarine in novels and films, as well as coverage of the Royal Navy's and civilian views of submarines and submarine warfare this book gives a comprehensive view of the British regard - or lack of it - for the submarine. Through the examination of the British relationship with submarines since 1900 it is possible to see changing patterns in acceptance and tensions between different sub-cultures, both civil and maritime. Since 1900 the meaning constructed around submarines has changed as the submarine has progressed along a road from perdition as the weapon of the weaker power (and morally weaker power too) to a form of redemption as a major capital unit. This book will be essential for naval historians, students and those interested in aspects of submarine development and use.

Author : Tom Ryall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 071906452X

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Anthony Asquith by Tom Ryall Pdf

This is the first comprehensive critical study of Anthony Asquith. Ryall sets the director's work in the context of British cinema from the silent period to the 1960s, examining the artistic and cultural influences which shaped his films.Asquith's silent films were compared favourably to those of his eminent contemporary Alfred Hitchcock, but his career faltered during the 1930s. However, the success of Pygmalion (1938) and French Without Tears (1939), based on plays by George Bernard Shaw and Terence Rattigan, together with his significant contributions to wartime British cinema, re-established him as a leading British film maker. Asquith's post-war career includes several pictures in collaboration with Terence Rattigan, and the definitive adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1951), but his versatility is demonstrated in a number of modest genre films including The Woman in Question (1950), The Young Lovers (1954) and Orders to Kill (1958).

Author : Kenneth Edwards (Commander.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Submarine warfare
ISBN : LCCN:40003237

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We Dive at Dawn by Kenneth Edwards (Commander.) Pdf

Author : Jonathan R. Rayner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0719070988

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The Naval War Film by Jonathan R. Rayner Pdf

This book undertakes a unique, coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema. The films under discussion encompass all areas of naval operations in war, and highlight varying institutional and aesthetic responses to navies and the sea in popular culture. The examination of these films centres on their similarities to and differences from the conventions of the war genre and seeks to determine whether the distinctive characteristics of naval film narratives justify their categorisation as a separate genre or sub-genre in popular cinema.

Author : Gill Plain
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748626618

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John Mills and British Cinema by Gill Plain Pdf

Although his film career extended from the early days of sound to the British New Wave and beyond, Sir John Mills is nonetheless remembered as the archetypal hero of the Second World War. Regarded as an English 'everyman', his performances crossed the class divide and, in his easy transition from below decks to above, he came to represent a newly democratic masculine ideal.But what was this exemplary masculinity and what became of it in the aftermath of war? John Mills and British Cinema asks how was it possible for an actor to embody national identity and, by exploring the cultural contexts in which Mills and the nation became synonymous, the book offers a new perspective on 40 years of cinema and social change. Through detailed analysis of a wide range of classic British films, John Mills and British Cinema exposes the shifting constructions of 'national' masculinity, arguing that the screen persona of the actor is a fundamental, and often overlooked, dimension of British cinema.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Cinematography
ISBN : NYPL:33433014375251

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Kine weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Murphy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0826478972

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British Cinema and the Second World War by Robert Murphy Pdf

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 : Stephen Bourne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474291347

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Brief Encounters by Stephen Bourne Pdf

For many years, lesbian and gay representation in British cinema escaped the attention of critics and historians. Informative and entertaining, Brief Encounters examines performers, directors and a wide range of films to reveal a cinema more varied, vital and sensuous than we could have imagined. Through a close reading of mid-twentieth century British films, Bourne explores a range of lesbian and gay screen images from movies including Soldiers of the King, Pygmalion, In Which We Serve, Brief Encounter, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes and A Hard Day's Night. In addition, he looks in detail at the ground-breaking Victim and brings together the moving reminiscences of gay men who first saw the film in the hostile climate of 1961, and the reactions of contemporary critics. This fluent chronology of over 150 famous, half-remembered and forgotten films is a testament to the contribution of gays and lesbian to British cinema culture.

Author : John Hill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118482834

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A Companion to British and Irish Cinema by John Hill Pdf

A stimulating overview of the intellectual arguments and critical debates involved in the study of British and Irish cinemas British and Irish film studies have expanded in scope and depth in recent years, prompting a growing number of critical debates on how these cinemas are analysed, contextualized, and understood. A Companion to British and Irish Cinema addresses arguments surrounding film historiography, methods of textual analysis, critical judgments, and the social and economic contexts that are central to the study of these cinemas. Twenty-nine essays from many of the most prominent writers in the field examine how British and Irish cinema have been discussed, the concepts and methods used to interpret and understand British and Irish films, and the defining issues and debates at the heart of British and Irish cinema studies. Offering a broad scope of commentary, the Companion explores historical, cultural and aesthetic questions that encompass over a century of British and Irish film studies—from the early years of the silent era to the present-day. Divided into five sections, the Companion discusses the social and cultural forces shaping British and Irish cinema during different periods, the contexts in which films are produced, distributed and exhibited, the genres and styles that have been adopted by British and Irish films, issues of representation and identity, and debates on concepts of national cinema at a time when ideas of what constitutes both ‘British’ and ‘Irish’ cinema are under question. A Companion to British and Irish Cinema is a valuable and timely resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of film, media, and cultural studies, and for those seeking contemporary commentary on the cinemas of Britain and Ireland.