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[Commlist] New Book : Men, War and Film: The Calling Blighty Films of World War II

Tue Jul 19 16:15:05 GMT 2022



Intellect is pleased to share that /Men, War and Film: The Calling Blighty Films of World War II <https://www.intellectbooks.com/men-war-and-film>/*/,/* by Steve Hawley, is available in e-book and hardback.

The /Calling Blighty/ series of films produced by the Combined Kinematograph Service produced towards the end of the Second World War were one-reel films in which soldiers gave short spoken messages to the camera as a means of connecting the front line and the home front. These are the first ever films where men speak openly in their regional accents, and they have profound meaning for remembrance, documentary representation and the ecology of film in wartime.

Until now, these films have barely been researched, and yet are a valuable source of social history as well as representing a different mode from the mainstream of British wartime documentary. This book expands the history of /Calling Blighty/ and places it in a broader context, both past and present. New research reveals the origins of the film series and draws comparisons with written and oral contemporary sources.


*_Table of 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*


Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/men-war-and-film
<http://www.intellectbooks.com/men-war-and-film>


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