British War Films, 1939-1945
By (Author) S. P. MacKenzie
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Hambledon Continuum
1st June 2006
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
European history
Second World War
Modern warfare
Reference works
791.43658
Hardback
244
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
580g
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, 1939-1945 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.
Paul Mackenzie is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and the author of The Home Guard: A Political and Military History.