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oapen-20.500.12657-315562023-01-31T18:46:01Z War Pictures Puckett, Kent History Colonel Blimp Falstaff (opera) Powell and Pressburger Propaganda Total war William Shakespeare World War II bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History 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. 2017-03-01 23:55:55 2020-01-27 14:50:55 2020-04-01T13:39:32Z 2020-04-01T13:39:32Z 2017 book 627003 OCN: 1023568366 9780823275748 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31556 eng World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension application/pdf n/a 627003.pdf Fordham University Press 10.26530/oapen_627003 100077 10.26530/oapen_627003 f501c751-7a51-484b-b90a-ed0912c4e53f b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780823275748 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 100077 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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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