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Author: Kent Puckett
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2017-05-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0823276511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique representational challenges to Britain’s filmmakers. Because of its logistical enormity, the unprecedented scope of its destruction, its conceptual status as total, and the way it affected everyday life through aerial bombing, blackouts, rationing, and the demands of total mobilization, World War II created new, critical opportunities for cinematic representation. Beginning with a close and critical analysis of Britain’s cultural scene, War Pictures examines where the historiography of war, the philosophy of violence, and aesthetics come together. Focusing on three films made in Britain during the second half of the Second World War—Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Lawrence Olivier’s Henry V (1944), and David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945)—Puckett treats these movies as objects of considerable historical interest but also as works that exploit the full resources of cinematic technique to engage with the idea, experience, and political complexity of war. By examining how cinema functioned as propaganda, criticism, and a form of self-analysis, War Pictures reveals how British filmmakers, writers, critics, and politicians understood the nature and consequence of total war as it related to ideas about freedom and security, national character, and the daunting persistence of human violence. While Powell and Pressburger, Olivier, and Lean developed deeply self-conscious wartime films, their specific and strategic use of cinematic eccentricity was an aesthetic response to broader contradictions that characterized the homefront in Britain between 1939 and 1945. This stylistic eccentricity shaped British thinking about war, violence, and commitment as well as both an answer to and an expression of a more general violence. Although War Pictures focuses on a particularly intense moment in time, Puckett uses that particularity to make a larger argument about the pressure that war puts on aesthetic representation, past and present. Through cinema, Britain grappled with the paradoxical notion that, in order to preserve its character, it had not only to fight and to win but also to abandon exactly those old decencies, those “sporting-club rules,” that it sought also to protect.
Download or read book War Pictures written by Kent Puckett and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique representational challenges to Britain’s filmmakers. Because of its logistical enormity, the unprecedented scope of its destruction, its conceptual status as total, and the way it affected everyday life through aerial bombing, blackouts, rationing, and the demands of total mobilization, World War II created new, critical opportunities for cinematic representation. Beginning with a close and critical analysis of Britain’s cultural scene, War Pictures examines where the historiography of war, the philosophy of violence, and aesthetics come together. Focusing on three films made in Britain during the second half of the Second World War—Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Lawrence Olivier’s Henry V (1944), and David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945)—Puckett treats these movies as objects of considerable historical interest but also as works that exploit the full resources of cinematic technique to engage with the idea, experience, and political complexity of war. By examining how cinema functioned as propaganda, criticism, and a form of self-analysis, War Pictures reveals how British filmmakers, writers, critics, and politicians understood the nature and consequence of total war as it related to ideas about freedom and security, national character, and the daunting persistence of human violence. While Powell and Pressburger, Olivier, and Lean developed deeply self-conscious wartime films, their specific and strategic use of cinematic eccentricity was an aesthetic response to broader contradictions that characterized the homefront in Britain between 1939 and 1945. This stylistic eccentricity shaped British thinking about war, violence, and commitment as well as both an answer to and an expression of a more general violence. Although War Pictures focuses on a particularly intense moment in time, Puckett uses that particularity to make a larger argument about the pressure that war puts on aesthetic representation, past and present. Through cinema, Britain grappled with the paradoxical notion that, in order to preserve its character, it had not only to fight and to win but also to abandon exactly those old decencies, those “sporting-club rules,” that it sought also to protect.
Author: Louis Prang
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780823221189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHolzer (vice president of communications, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) has produced a complete account of the creation by Prang, a printer known as the "father of the Christmas card," of a series of chromolithographs of Civil War scenes. Holzer's lengthy introduction describes in detail the process involved in creating the prints, setting the project in the larger context of Prang's print business in late 19th-century Boston. The extensive texts that originally accompanied the prints are included, along with good- quality color reproductions of the prints. c. Book News Inc.
Download or read book Prang's Civil War Pictures written by Louis Prang and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holzer (vice president of communications, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) has produced a complete account of the creation by Prang, a printer known as the "father of the Christmas card," of a series of chromolithographs of Civil War scenes. Holzer's lengthy introduction describes in detail the process involved in creating the prints, setting the project in the larger context of Prang's print business in late 19th-century Boston. The extensive texts that originally accompanied the prints are included, along with good- quality color reproductions of the prints. c. Book News Inc.
Author: William Emmet Moore
Publisher:
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 622
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChiefly photos illustrating the many activities of the United States Army during World War I. From the draft board offices to the battle field, anything and everything about the military forces during this period, at sea and on land, training and fighting. Includes lists of commanding officers, award winners, and support divisions.
Download or read book U. S. Official Pictures of the World War written by William Emmet Moore and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly photos illustrating the many activities of the United States Army during World War I. From the draft board offices to the battle field, anything and everything about the military forces during this period, at sea and on land, training and fighting. Includes lists of commanding officers, award winners, and support divisions.
Author: Fletcher Pratt
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781494062316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a new release of the original 1955 edition.
Download or read book Civil War in Pictures written by Fletcher Pratt and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1955 edition.
Author: Tim Page
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese and a hundred other images are seared into our consciousness - but a very different viewpoint appears in this vision of three decades of war in Vietnam.".
Download or read book Another Vietnam written by Tim Page and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These and a hundred other images are seared into our consciousness - but a very different viewpoint appears in this vision of three decades of war in Vietnam.".
Download or read book War Pictures from the South written by Bela Estvàn and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book War Pictures Behind the Lines written by Sir Ian Malcolm and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author: Anita Lobel
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 2008-09-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780613285902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelates the popular children's book author's early life spent in hiding and in concentration camps in Poland.
Download or read book No Pretty Pictures written by Anita Lobel and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the popular children's book author's early life spent in hiding and in concentration camps in Poland.