The Naval War Film: Genre, History and National Cinema
The Naval War Film: Genre, History and National Cinema
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Abstract
This book undertakes a consideration of the depiction of naval warfare within British and American cinema. The films (ranging from examples from the interwar period, the Second World War, the Cold War and contemporary cinema) encompass all areas of naval operations in war, and highlight varying institutional and aesthetic responses to navies and the sea in popular culture. Examination of the films centres on their similarities to and differences from the conventions of the war genre as described in earlier analyses, and seeks to determine whether the distinctive characteristics of naval film narratives justify their categorisation as a separate genre or sub-genre in popular cinema. The explicit factual bases and drama-documentary style of many key naval films (such as In Which We Serve, They Were Expendable and Das Boot) also require a consideration of them as texts for popular historical transmission. Their frequent reinforcement of establishment views of the past, which derives from their conservative ideological position towards national and naval culture, makes these films key texts for the consideration of national cinemas as purveyors of contemporary history as popularly conceived by filmmakers and received by audiences.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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British naval films and the documentary feature
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Post-war British naval films and the service comedy
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Hollywood and the one-ocean war
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The submarine war and the submarine film
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American films of the Cold War
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‘Damn the photon torpedoes!’ Star Trek and the transfiguration of naval history
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Popularising the navy, rewriting the past: contemporary naval films
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Conclusion
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End Matter
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