War representation in British cinema and television :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
From Suez to Thatcher, and beyond /
First Statement of Responsibility
Kevin M. Flanagan.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cham, Switzerland :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2019.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (246 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Britain and the World
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Includes index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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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
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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
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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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OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
War representation in British cinema and television. From Suez to Thatcher, and beyond.
International Standard Book Number
9783030302023
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
War films-- Great Britain-- History and criticism.
War in mass media.
War television programs-- Great Britain-- History and criticism.