British Cultural Memory and the Second World War

Herausgeber: Noakes, Lucy; Pattinson, Juliette

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Produktbeschreibung

Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War. It has left a rich legacy in a range of media that continue to attract a wide audience: film, TV and radio, photography and the visual arts, journalism and propaganda, architecture, museums, music and literature. The enduring presence of the war in the public world is echoed in its ongoing centrality in many personal and family memories, with stories of the Second World War being recounted through the generations. This collection brings together recent historical work on the cultural memory of the war, examining its presence in family stories, in popular and material culture and in acts of commemoration in Britain between 1945 and the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Continnuum-3PL
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781441160577
• ISBN-10: 1441160574
• Artikelnr.: 39343529

Autorenporträt

Lucy Noakes is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Brighton, UK. Juliette Pattinson is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Strathclyde, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the cultural memory of the Second World War, Lucy Noakes and
Juliette Pattinson \ Part One: Personal Narratives of the Second World War
\ Section Introduction, Juliette Pattinson \ 1. 'The long ago war looms
large in my life': men, women and the cultural memory of the Second World
War, a Mass-Observation study, Penny Summerfield \ 2. 'War on the Web': The
BBC 'People's War' Website and Memories of the Second World War in 21st
century Britain, Lucy Noakes \ 4. Race and Ethnicity in World War Two
Britain, Wendy Ugolini \ 5. A Class Apart: Reconstructing Class and Gender
in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, Juliette Pattinson \ 6. 'An Officer and
a Gentleman': Remembering Sexual Culture in the British Army, 1939-1945',
Emma Reilly \ Part Two: Representing the War \ Section Introduction, Lucy
Noakes \ 7. Remembering War, Forgetting Empire: Cinematic Representations
of the North African Campaign in the Era of Decolonization, Martin Francis
\ 8. The People's War in Personal Testimony and Bronze: Sorority in War and
Peace, Corinna Peniston-Bird \ 9. Writing the 'Missing Chapter': Post-War
Memoirs of Bomber Command Aircrew, Frances Houghton \ 10. Total War and
'Total Anniversary': Popular Culture and World War II Commemoration, Janet
K. Watson \ 11. Remembering the home front in the new age of austerity,
Rebecca Bramall