British cinema and the Second World War
By: Robert Murphy.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war; Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-322) and indexes.
Filmography: p. 269-312.
Table of contents: title: Whistling in the dark : British cinema in the early years of the war; title: The world turned upside down : war comedy; title: Myths and fictions : film and propaganda; title: The secret war : films of resistance and subversion; title: Visions of Britain : cinema, war and realism; title: Passion and loss : the role of women in wartime cinema; title: Tigers in the smoke : dark legacies of the war; title: Reliving past glories : the heyday of the British war film; title: Fallout : the enduring fascination of the Second World War.