The food companions
Subtitle: cinema and consumption in wartime Britain, 1939-45
By: Richard Farmer
Series: Studies in popular culture; Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
Publisher: Manchester University Press; distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780719083136
Subjects: Motion pictures and the war; Rationing; World War, 1939-1945; Motion pictures in propaganda; History
Description: The introduction of rationing ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. 'The Food Companions' investigates the cinema of this period and demonstrates the cultural impact that rationing and food control had on both government propaganda and commercial feature films.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-252) and index.

Includes filmography (p. [237]-242).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: this is a film about food!; title: Not so quiet on the kitchen front: Ministry of Food publicity in the Second World War; title: Food flash! Ministry of Food short film publicity; title: Laying a table for a family of 45 million: celebrating and contesting communal consumption; title: The rat in England's storehouse: the black market in wartime cinema; title: The Honourable company of Tea Drinkers: using food to position Britain, her allies and her enemies.