War representation in British cinema and television :
[Book]
From Suez to Thatcher, and beyond /
Kevin M. Flanagan.
Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
1 online resource (246 pages)
Britain and the World
Includes index.
Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction: Toward an Alternative Tradition of War Representation; War and Britain: The Mainstream Inheritance; War Representation: Expanded Theaters; Surveying an Alternative Tradition; Methodologies and Interventions; Summary and Chapter Breakdown; Works Cited; 2 Tragedy, Bleakness, Cynicism, and Existentialism in British War Cinema, 1956-1982; New War Tragedy: The Intellectual and Genre Context; Tragedy, Existentialism, and War: Some Key Texts; Joseph Losey and the Rethinking of War; Conclusion; Works Cited
3 Comic and Satirical Alternatives to the "Pleasure Culture of War"The War and After: Defining the Dominant Tradition of the 1950s; War Comedy Through the 1940s; War Comedy Since the War: Continuity and Change; The Emergent Tradition: War Comedy Meets Modernism in The Charge of the Light Brigade and How I Won the War; Conclusion; Works Cited; 4 On Screen and at Arm's Length: Social Class and the Simulation of Combat; War, Technology, Simulation: The Historical Context; The Public School Ethos and Officer Class Militarism; Sports and War: Training and Control at a Remove
School, Sports, and Games: Some Key Films About Simulated WarDistance and Absence: Oh! What a Lovely War and The Gladiators; Conclusion; Works Cited; 5 The Bomb and After: Fantasies of Apocalypse and Decline; The Atomic Society: Comedy, Counterculture, Science Fiction; The Bomb Across Genres; The War Game: Lost Control and the Dialectics of Style; The Bed Sitting Room: Laughing at the End of the Nation Through Ruins and the Repetition Compulsion; Conclusion; Works Cited; 6 Conclusion: The Legacies of 1960s and 1970s War Representation, from Thatcher to Brexit
War and Art Cinema: Britain and BeyondThe Immediate Legacy: War Representation and Thatcher; The Varieties of War Representation in Contemporary British Cinema and Television; Home Fires and Expanded World War II Narratives; Dunkirk and the Historiography of British War Films; Parting Shots; Works Cited; Index
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War representation in British cinema and television. From Suez to Thatcher, and beyond.
9783030302023
War films-- Great Britain-- History and criticism.
War in mass media.
War television programs-- Great Britain-- History and criticism.