Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Chapter 1. Introduction: Towards an Alternative Tradition of War Representation.- Chapter 2. "For Christ's Sake, We're Surrounded " Tragedy, Bleakness, Cynicism and Existentialism in British War Cinema, 1957-1977.- Chapter 3. Comic Alternatives to the "Pleasure Culture of War".- Chapter 4. On Screen and at Arm's Length: Social Class and the Simulation of Combat.- Chapter 5. The Bomb and After: Fantasies of Apocalypse and Decline.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: The Legacies of the 1960s and 1970s War Representation, From Thatcher to Brexit.