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

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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