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War Representation in British Cinema and Television

Part of the Britain and the World Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30203-0

ISBN: 978-3-030-30202-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 26, 2019

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Chapter 1Introduction: Toward an Alternative Tradition of War Representation

Flanagan, Kevin M.

Pages: 1 –26

[This introduction first establishes the mainstream relationship cultural relationship between war and cinema (a celebration of martial masculinity and national aims using realism and the Classical Hollywood style) and then explores alternatives (criticisms of war and the military, using fantasy...
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Chapter 2Tragedy, Bleakness, Cynicism, and Existentialism in British War Cinema, 1956–1982

Flanagan, Kevin M.

Pages: 27 –62

[This chapter focuses on a mode of existential war tragedy that thrives during the period under consideration. It provides an intellectual and genre context for this emphasis and surveys key films to explore these themes and moods. In this post-World War II moment, absent an urgent propaganda...
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Chapter 3Comic and Satirical Alternatives to the “Pleasure Culture of War”

Flanagan, Kevin M.

Pages: 63 –109

[This chapter looks at a lineage of comedic war films, starting before Suez but then demonstrating how the connection between war and comedy changed throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In particular, the chapter shows how satire and comedic irony emerge in film and television works as critical tools,...
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Chapter 4On Screen and at Arm’s Length: Social Class and the Simulation of Combat

Flanagan, Kevin M.

Pages: 111 –156

[This chapter demonstrates how simulation and games became increasingly tied to film and television works about war during the period between Suez and the Falkland War. It argues that this not only serves a newly technocratic conception of war, but also increases the distance between enlisted men...
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Chapter 5The Bomb and After: Fantasies of Apocalypse and Decline

Flanagan, Kevin M.

Pages: 157 –195

[This chapter explores Britain’s relationship to the atomic bomb by charting its geopolitical standing in the larger Cold War, exploring where and how nuclear anxieties were represented on screen, and analyzing the allegories and fantasies that attended to such a feeling of national inadequacy...
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Chapter 6Conclusion: The Legacies of 1960s and 1970s War Representation, from Thatcher to Brexit

Flanagan, Kevin M.

Pages: 197 –216

[This concluding chapter looks at the legacies of the alternative trends that the rest of the book has mapped, noting how some failed to gain purchase within the genre in the long run, whereas others are now routine in the representation of war. In particular, the chapter looks at war and art...

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