British cultural memory and the Second World War / edited by Lucy Noakes and Juliette Pattinson.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Noakes, Lucy, 1964- editor.
• Pattinson, Juliette, editor.

Series:

• Cultural histories series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Collective memory--Great Britain.
• World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Great Britain.
• World War, 1939-1945--Mass media and the war.
• Collective memory.
• Mass media and war.
• Social aspects.
• Great Britain.
• Cultural History (History).
• History.
• Modern History (History).
• Second World War (History).

Local Subjects:

• Cultural History (History).
• History.
• Modern History (History).
• Second World War (History).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 218 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Summary:

Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War. It has left a rich legacy in a range of media that continue to attract a wide audience: film, TV and radio, photography and the visual arts, journalism and propaganda, architecture, museums, music and literature. The enduring presence of the war in the public world is echoed in its ongoing centrality in many personal and family memories, with stories of the Second World War being recounted through the generations. This collection brings together recent historical work on the cultural memory of the war, examining its presence in family stories, in popular and material culture and in acts of commemoration in Britain between 1945 and the present.

Contents:

• 1. Introduction: 'Keep calm and carry on': The cultural memory of the Second World War in Britain / Lucy Noakes and Juliette Pattinson
• 2. The generation of memory: Gender and the popular memory of the Second World War in Britain / Penny Summerfield
• 3. 'War on the Web': The BBC's 'People's War' website and memories of fear in wartime in 21st-century Britain / Lucy Noakes
• 4. The people's war in personal testimony and bronze: Sorority and the memorial to The Women of World War II / Corinna M. Peniston-Bird
• 5. 'When are you going back?' Memory, ethnicity and the British Home Front / Wendy Ugolini
• 6. Remembering war, forgetting empire? Representations of the North African Campaign in 1950s British cinema / Martin Francis
• 7. 'A story that will thrill you and make you proud': The cultural memory of Britain's secret war in Occupied France / Juliette Pattinson
• 8. The 'missing chapter': Bomber Command aircrew memoirs in the 1990s and 2000s / Frances Houghton
• 9. Total war and total anniversary: The material culture of Second World War commemoration in Britain / Janet Watson
• 10. Memory, meaning and multidirectionality: 'Remembering' austerity Britain / Rebecca Bramall.

Notes:

• Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 10 November 2020).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781350214583
• 1350214582

OCLC:

1079402530

Publisher Number:

171371

Access Restriction:

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