Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #415672 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-03
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 319 pages

Synopsis
Gives a picture of popular consensus between the government and the film industry over the cinematic representation of Britain and the British at war. It examines the role of the cinema as a vehicle of propaganda, and shows the relationship between the Ministry of Information and the film industry.

Customer Reviews

Disappointing analyses, full of commonplace views
There is ultimately a disappointing work with a very conventional viewpoint. There is surely much more to be said about British cinema of WW2 than this. Surely comedy played an important role in British films during the war: Let George Do It and such films were as important as Henry V. Much better to find a copy Raymond Durgnat's inspired A Mirror for England in a second-hand bookstore. Three stars top.

Excellent debate of cinema, propaganda and war
James Chapman manages to balance the role of cinema and propaganda in the overall context of the Second World War and the home front.

The debate between the feature film and documentary film provide an excellent backdrop to discussion and analysis of the films produced in that era.

A fascinating insight to how cinema and propaganda developed as the Second World War progressed. A very comprehensive piece of work.