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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 critic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Puckett, Kent (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Knowledge Unlatched
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Colección:World War II--the global, human, and ethical dimension ; 25.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.