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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Puckett, Kent (Author)
Corporate Author: Knowledge Unlatched
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Series:World War II--the global, human, and ethical dimension ; 25.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.