BRITISH WAR FILMS, 1939 - 45

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A&C Black, 2001 M01 1 - 244 pages
The cinema was the most popular form of entertainment during the Second World War. Film was a critically important medium for influencing opinion. Films, such as In Which We Serve and One of Our Aircraft is Missing, shaped the British people's perceptions of the conflict. British War Films, 1939-45 is an account of the feature films produced during the war, rather than government documentaries and official propaganda, making the book an important index of British morale and values at a time of desperate national crisis.
 

Contents

1 The Services and the Cinema 19001939
1
The Royal Air Force and Feature Films 19391945
27
The Royal Navy and Feature Films 19391945
63
The British Army and Feature Films 19391945
91
5 The Services and the Cinema 19451970
129
Conclusion
159
Notes
165
Bibliography
217
Index
235
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Paul Mackenzie is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and the author of The Home Guard: A Political and Military History.

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