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" War representation in British cinema and television : "
Kevin M. Flanagan.
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862896
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Flanagan, Kevin M.,1983-
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War representation in British cinema and television : : From Suez to Thatcher, and beyond /\ Kevin M. Flanagan.
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2019.
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Britain and the World
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1 online resource (246 pages)
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3030302032
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: 9783030302030
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3030302024
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9783030302023
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Includes index.
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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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War films-- Great Britain-- History and criticism.
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War in mass media.
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War television programs-- Great Britain-- History and criticism.
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War films.
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War in mass media.
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War television programs.
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Great Britain.
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791.43/6581
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PN1995.9.W3
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