War Representation in British Cinema and Television

Kevin M. Flanagan is Term Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, USA. He is the editor of Ken Russell: Re-Viewing England’s Last Mannerist (2009) and has published essays in Screen, Framework, Critical Quarterly, and the Journal of British Cinema and Television, as well as in many edited collections and reference works.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Towards an Alternative Tradition of War Representation.- Chapter 2. “For Christ’s Sake, We’re Surrounded!”: Tragedy, Bleakness, Cynicism and Existentialism in British War Cinema, 1957-1977.- Chapter 3. Comic Alternatives to the “Pleasure Culture of War”.- Chapter 4. On Screen and at Arm’s Length: Social Class and the Simulation of Combat.- Chapter 5. The Bomb and After: Fantasies of Apocalypse and Decline.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: The Legacies of the 1960s and 1970s War Representation, From Thatcher to Brexit.