War Pictures: Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945

by Kent Puckett

Book Overview

In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique representational challenges to Britain's filmmakers. Because of its logistical enormity, the unprecedented scope of its destruction, its conceptual status as total, and the way it affected everyday life through aerial bombing, blackouts, rationing, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823276503
• ISBN13: 9780823276509
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"