ISBN:
082327652X
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0823280802
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9780823280803
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9780823276523
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9780823275748
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9780823276509
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 264 pages)
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illustrations
Series Statement:
World War II: the global, human, and ethical dimension [25]
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Puckett, Kent War pictures
Keywords:
War films History and criticism
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World War, 1939-1945 Motion pictures and the war
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Motion pictures History
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Motion pictures
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War and motion pictures
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War films
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PERFORMING ARTS ; Reference
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Great Britain
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PERFORMING ARTS ; Film & Video ; History & Criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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History
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World War (1939-1945)
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Introduction -- "But what is it about?" : the life and death of Colonel Blimp -- Pistol's two bodies : Henry V at war -- Celia Johnson's face : before and after brief encounter -- Epilogue : Derek Jarman's war.
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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