Men, War and Film : The Calling Blighty Films of World War II / Steve Hawley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawley, Steve, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armed Forces in motion pictures.

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

War and motion pictures.

World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (158 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect Ltd, [2022]

Summary:

The story and analysis of the Calling Blighty series of films made by the Combined Kinematograph Service in Burma and India between 1943 and 1946. These are remarkable and moving documents, a one-way Skype of their day, where men - and a very few women - sent spoken messages home to be shown to families and sweethearts in local cinemas. 42 illus.

Contents:

Cover

Men, War and Film: The Calling Blighty Films of World War II

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Introduction: Talking with the Dead

1. Death and Disease in the Jungle: The War in Burma

2. The Ecology of Wartime Film

3. Living Letters: How the Films Came About

4. I'm in the Pink: An Overview of the Messages

5. Masculinity and the Soldier's Tale

6. The Invisible Men: Empire Soldiers and Calling Blighty

7. 'Dimmed by Happy Tears': Remembrance, Ritual and Forgetting

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hawley, Steve Men, War and Film

ISBN:

9781789385137

178938513X

9781789385120

1789385121