Title:
War pictures : cinema, violence, and style in Britain, 1939-1945 / Kent Puckett.
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9780823276516
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Publication Information:
New York : Fordham University Press, [2021]
©2017
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Contents:
Preface -- 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:
Examines the representation of war in three British films made during the second half of World War II: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp," Lawrence Olivier's "Henry V," and David Lean's "Brief Encounter." Discusses how these films acted as propaganda and made the British people think about their ideas of freedom and security, national character, and human violence.
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