Culture and Propaganda in World War II: Music, Film and the Battle for National Identity

by John Morris

Book Overview

The wartime period in Britain is viewed as an extremely fertile period of British creativity in music, film and art. Often these projects were funded and supported by the government, who understood its role as a custodian of British culture and, by extension, of British values at a time where those values were under threat. In the late 1930s, the Nazi Party had stressed the superiority of Germanic culture and the promotion of Richard Wagner and Carl...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350159069
• ISBN13: 9781350159068
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"