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Author Puckett, Kent, author.

Title War pictures : cinema, violence, and style in Britain, 1939-1945 / Kent Puckett.

Imprint New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series World War II: the global, human, and ethical dimension ; [25]
World War II--the global, human, and ethical dimension ; 25.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary 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 form of self-analysis, as a reflection on war and the kinds of violence it tends to unleash? How did British filmmakers, writers, critics, and politicians understand the nature and consequence of total war as it related to ideas about freedom and security, the idea of national character, and the daunting persistence of human violence? 'War Pictures' is also about violence, aesthetics, and conceptual difficulties of war in general; in other words, beginning with a close and critical analysis of a particular cultural scene, the author makes strong and important claims about where the historiography of war, the philosophy of violence, and aesthetics come importantly together.
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Subject Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History.
War films -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war.
Cinéma -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
Films de guerre -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire et critique.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Cinéma et guerre.
PERFORMING ARTS / Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Motion pictures
War and motion pictures
War films
Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBbhpRH9XvjbDFXtxhb
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Added Author Knowledge Unlatched.
Other Form: Print version: Puckett, Kent. War pictures. First edition. New York : Fordham University Press, 2017 (DLC) 2016051380
ISBN 9780823276523 (electronic bk.)
082327652X (electronic bk.)
9780823280803 (electronic bk.)
0823280802 (electronic bk.)
9780823275748 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780823276509 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0823275744
9780823275748
0823276503
9780823276509
Standard No. AU@ 000060745331
CHNEW 000950615
CHVBK 483517208
GBVCP 1011008815
DKDLA 820120-katalog:999924259905765

 
    
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