The Battle of Britain on Screen
Subtitle: 'The Few' in British Film and Television Drama (Societies at War)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: June 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780748623891
Subjects: British & Irish history: Second World War; Film theory & criticism; Television; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; British Isles; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Television - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940, in motion pictures; History and criticism; War films
Description: S.P. Mackenzie explores how and why the Battle of Britain has evolved as a subject on the big and small screen since the 1940s. He examines both continuity and change with the presentation of a wartime event that acquired near-mythical dimensions in popular consciousness even before it happened.