War Pictures : Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945 /

In 'War Pictures', Puckett looks at how Britain imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime. How did the material and conceptual pressures of total war affect what it meant to see or to make art? How did culture and, in particular, cinema function as propaganda, as criticism, as a...

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Huvudupphov: Puckett, Kent (Författare, medförfattare)
Institutionellt upphov: Knowledge Unlatched
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Utgiven: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Serie:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • Introduction
  • "But what is it about?" : the life and death of Colonel Blimp
  • Pistol's two bodies : Henry V at war
  • Celia Johnson's face : before and after brief encounter
  • Epilogue : Derek Jarman's war.