Jonathan Rayner

The naval war film

Genre, history and national cinema

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book undertakes a unique, coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema. The films under discussion encompass all areas of naval operations in war, and highlight varying institutional and aesthetic responses to navies and the sea in popular culture. The examination of these films centres on their similarities to and differences from the conventions of the war genre 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780719070983
• ISBN-10: 0719070988
• Artikelnr.: 22896243

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Rayner is Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. British Naval Films and the Documentary Feature 2. Post-war
Naval Films and the Service Comedy 3. Hollywood and the One-Ocean War 4.
The Submarine War and the Submarine Film 5. American Films of the Cold War
6. "Damn the Photon Torpedoes!": Star Trek and the Transfiguration of Naval
History 7. Popularising the Navy, Rewriting the Past: Contemporary Naval
Films Conclusion Filmography Bibliography Appendix I: Comparison of
Narrative Elements in Naval War Films Appendix II: Warships in Feature
Films Index