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    War Pictures

    Cinema, History, and Violence in Britain, 1939-1945

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    Author(s)
    Puckett, Kent
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    100077
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31556
    Keywords
    History; Colonel Blimp; Falstaff (opera); Powell and Pressburger; Propaganda; Total war; William Shakespeare; World War II
    DOI
    10.26530/oapen_627003
    ISBN
    9780823275748
    OCN
    1023568366
    Publisher
    Fordham University Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.fordhampress.com/
    Publication date and place
    2017
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched - 100077 - KU Select 2016 Front List Collection
    Series
    World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension,
    Classification
    History
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Colonel Blimp - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Blimp; Falstaff (opera) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(opera); Powell and Pressburger - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_and_Pressburger; Propaganda - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda; Total war - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war; William Shakespeare - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare; World War II - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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