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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Autore principale: Puckett, Kent (Autore)
Ente Autore: Knowledge Unlatched
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
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Sommario:
  • 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.