LEADER 05062nam 22006255 450 001 9910483810003321 005 20200702172852.0 010 $a3-030-30203-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-30203-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000009678458 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5967902 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-30203-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009678458 100 $a20191025d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWar Representation in British Cinema and Television $eFrom Suez to Thatcher, and Beyond /$fby Kevin M. Flanagan 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aBritain and the World 311 $a3-030-30202-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction: Towards an Alternative Tradition of War Representation -- Chapter 2. ?For Christ?s Sake, We?re Surrounded!?: Tragedy, Bleakness, Cynicism and Existentialism in British War Cinema, 1957-1977 -- Chapter 3. Comic Alternatives to the ?Pleasure Culture of War? -- Chapter 4. On Screen and at Arm?s Length: Social Class and the Simulation of Combat -- Chapter 5. The Bomb and After: Fantasies of Apocalypse and Decline -- Chapter 6. Conclusion: The Legacies of the 1960s and 1970s War Representation, From Thatcher to Brexit. 330 $a"A highly original addition to the growing literature on war and film, Kevin Flanagan's welcome new study ranges beyond the narrow confines of the 'war film' to consider how war imagery and narratives are present across a wide range of British genres. Flanagan proves himself a perceptive cultural critic with a wide-ranging knowledge and deep understanding of British cinema and television. He has produced a study that is thoughtful and thought-provoking in equal measure, and which is not afraid to challenge dominant myths and existing preconceptions." James Chapman, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester and editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. This book explores alternatives to realist, triumphalist, and heroic representations of war in British film and television. Focusing on the period between the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the Falkland War but offering connections to the moment of Brexit, it argues that the ?lost continent? of existential, satirical, simulated, and abstractly traumatic war stories is as central to understanding Britain?s martial history as the mainstream inheritance. The book features case studies that stress the contribution of exiled or expatriate directors and outsider sensibilities, with particular emphasis on Peter Watkins, Joseph Losey, and Richard Lester. At the same time, it demonstrates concerns and stylistic emphases that continue to the present in television series and films by directors such as Lone Scherfig and Christopher Nolan. Encompassing everything from features to government information films, the book explores related trends in the British film industry, popular culture, and film criticism, while offering a sense of how these contexts contribute to historical memory. Kevin M. Flanagan is Term Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, USA. He is the editor of Ken Russell: Re-Viewing England?s Last Mannerist (2009) and has published essays in Screen, Framework, Critical Quarterly, and the Journal of British Cinema and Television, as well as in many edited collections and reference works. 410 0$aBritain and the World 606 $aMotion pictures?Great Britain 606 $aEthnology?Europe 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945 606 $aGreat Britain?History 606 $aBritish Cinema and TV$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/413040 606 $aBritish Culture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411050 606 $aHistory of World War II and the Holocaust$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717110 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717020 615 0$aMotion pictures?Great Britain. 615 0$aEthnology?Europe. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945. 615 0$aGreat Britain?History. 615 14$aBritish Cinema and TV. 615 24$aBritish Culture. 615 24$aHistory of World War II and the Holocaust. 615 24$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 676 $a791.43658 676 $a791.43658 700 $aFlanagan$b Kevin M$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01225119 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483810003321 996 $aWar Representation in British Cinema and Television$92844596 997 $aUNINA