This book examines representations of the Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese cinema. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly disciplines, and analysing a wide range of films, it demonstrates the potential of war movies for understanding contemporary China and Japan. It shows how the ...
Two more war film are about to hit our screens, and while we can’t seem to wean ourselves off them, the best capture a complex realityAre you British and reading this piece at the age of 94? If so, as you will know, you may actually have fought in the second world war. Widen ...
This book examines representations of the Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese cinema. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly disciplines, and analysing a wide range of films, it demonstrates the potential of war movies for understanding contemporary China and Japan. It shows how the wa...
And for the most part films of the second world war, together with post-war films about the war, confirmed the stereotypes. Perhaps such stereotyping was the inevitable consequence of victory. However, set against the backdrop of cold war, the traumas of decolonisation and the threat of ...
Did the Germans make many (or any) war films after the second world war? If so, was the part of any English speaker played by a German actor speaking in an English accent? Dom Smith • Post your answers – and new questions – below or email them to nq@theguardian.com. Please inc...
Cuban Warpresspublic opinionCuban Independence War of 1985 was a milestone in Communication History because it was the first one to cross the battlefield and diplomatic offices lines to dueling in Press. Any approach to this conflict requires references to the role played by major American headers...
What main sub-genre can war films be divided into? A、First World War Film; B、Second World War Film; C、Vietnam War Film; D、Iraq War Film;
In Jeffrey Richards' account of British movies made during the Second World War he begins by defining the Ministry of Information's idea of what constituted the archetypal British films of the era, and by implication what sort of fare the public should be watching during the conflict to bolster...
In the 1950s, British cinema won large audiences with popular war films and comedies, creating stars such as Dirk Bogarde and Kay Kendall, and introducing the stereotypes of war hero, boffin and comic bureaucrat which still help to defin... C Geraghty,I Ebrary - Routledge 被引量: 17发表:...
This chapter considers the ways in which British/English films about the Second World War, especially those focused on the home front, have deployed the landscape imagery as an iconographic element of a discourse invariably bound up with issues of national identity. The Lion Has Wings, In Which...