War Representation in British Cinema and Television From Suez to Thatcher, and Beyond /

• Main Author: Flanagan, Kevin M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Britain and the World
• Subjects: Motion pictures-Great Britain.; Ethnology-Europe.; World War, 1939-1945.; Great Britain-History.; British Cinema and TV.; British Culture.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; History of Britain and Ireland.

"A highly original addition to the growing literature on war and film, Kevin Flanagan's welcome new study ranges beyond the narrow confines of the 'war film' to consider how war imagery and narratives are present across a wide range of British genres. Flanagan proves himself a pe...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Towards an Alternative Tradition of War Representation
• Chapter 2. "For Christ's Sake, We're Surrounded!": Tragedy, Bleakness, Cynicism and Existentialism in British War Cinema, 1957-1977
• Chapter 3. Comic Alternatives to the "Pleasure Culture of War"
• Chapter 4. On Screen and at Arm's Length: Social Class and the Simulation of Combat
• Chapter 5. The Bomb and After: Fantasies of Apocalypse and Decline
• Chapter 6. Conclusion: The Legacies of the 1960s and 1970s War Representation, From Thatcher to Brexit.