The Story Of British Propaganda Film
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| Author | : Tony Shaw |
| Publisher | : I.B. Tauris |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
"Shaw analyses key films of the period, including High Treason, which put a British McCarthyism on celluloid; the fascinatingly ambiguous science fiction thriller The Quatermass Experiment; the court-room drama based on the trial of Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty, The Prisoner; the dystopic The Damned, made by one of Hollywood's blacklisted directors, Joseph Losey; and the CIA-funded, animated version of George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm. The result is a deeply probing study of how Cold War issues were refracted through British films, compared with their imported American and East European counterparts, and how the British public received this 'war propaganda'."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Scott Anthony |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2024-09-05 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1839021365 |
'All art is propaganda,' wrote George Orwell, 'but not all propaganda is art.' Moving from World War I to the 'War on Terror' and beyond, The Story of British Propaganda Film shows how the emergence of film as a global media phenomenon reshaped practices of propaganda, while new practices of propaganda in turn reshaped the use of the moving image. It explores classic examples of cinematic propaganda such as The Battle of the Somme (1916), Listen to Britain (1942) and Animal Farm (1954) alongside little-known newsreels, 'telemagazines' and digital media initiatives, in the process challenging our understanding of propaganda itself, and its many diverse manifestations. Richly illustrated with unique material from the BFI National Archive, the book shows how central propaganda is to the development of British film, and how it has filtered our understanding of modern British history, from narratives of decolonisation to the celebration of pop culture and the meanings of the postwar consensus. In a contemporary moment so preoccupied with misinformation, malinformation and disinformation, Scott Anthony explains why the response to the ubiquity of the propaganda film has often turned out to be the production of ever more propaganda.
| Author | : Jo Fox |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : David Welch |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
During World War II, the UK government created the Central Office of Information to act as the country s marketing and communications agency. In these desperate times, the Office produced steady streams of propaganda for the home front, for the colonies and for dissemination through occupied countries. In addition to patriotic material encouraging Britons to maintain a stiff upper lip, thousands of postcards, leaflets, posters, booklets and other promotional materials were dropped from aircraft over occupied countries in World War II. In 2000, the master set of copies was deposited with the British Library, making an enormous collection of great social and historical significance available to the public for the first time."
| Author | : Paul Lashmar |
| Publisher | : Alan Sutton Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Britain's Secret Propaganda War is the first book to be written about The Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD) -- an important chapter in the history of the Cold War. The narrative is driven by actual accounts of IRD covert operations and includes a number of "exclusives." The IRD was set up under the Labour Government in 1948 and clandestinely financed from the Secret Intelligence Service budget. A large organisation with close links to MI6 -- with whom it shared many personnel -- it waged a vigorous covert propaganda campaign against Eastern Bloc Communism for nearly thirty years using journalists, politicians, academics and trade unionists -none of whom were "unwitting." Such famous names as George Orwell, Denis Healey, Stephen Spender, Bertrand Russell and Guy Burgess helped or backed the work of IRD.
| Author | : John Jenks |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
John Jenks digs into the archives to give a detailed account of British media discourse, news manipulation and propaganda in the early Cold War.
| Author | : Nicholas Reeves |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 1986-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780709942252 |
| Author | : Tom Rice |
| Publisher | : University of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2019-10-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0520300394 |
Films for the Colonies examines the British Government’s use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence in the 1960s. Central to this work was the Colonial Film Unit, which produced, distributed, and, through its network of mobile cinemas, exhibited instructional and educational films throughout the British colonies. Using extensive archival research and rarely seen films, Films for the Colonies provides a new historical perspective on the last decades of the British Empire. It also offers a fresh exploration of British and global cinema, charting the emergence and endurance of new forms of cinema culture from Ghana to Jamaica, Malta to Malaysia. In highlighting the integral role of film in managing and maintaining a rapidly changing Empire, Tom Rice offers a compelling and far-reaching account of the media, propaganda, and the legacies of colonialism.
| Author | : Jez Stewart |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2021-08-26 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1911239724 |
A Sight & Sound Book of the Year Jez Stewart charts the course of this extraordinarily fertile area of British film from early experiments with stop-motion and the flourishing of animated drawings during WWI. He reveals how the rockier interwar period set the shape of the industry in enduring ways, and how creatives like Len Lye and Lotte Reiniger brought art to advertising and sponsored films, building a foundation for such distinctive talents as Bob Godfrey, Alison De Vere and George Dunning to unleash their independent visions in the age of commercial TV. Stewart highlights the integral role of women in the industry, the crucial boost delivered by the arrival of Channel 4, the emergence of online animation and much more. The book features 'close-up' analyses of key animators such as Lancelot Speed and Richard Williams, as well as more thematic takes on art, politics and music. It builds a framework for better appreciating Britain's landmark contributions to the art of animation, including Halas and Batchelor's Animal Farm (1954), Dunning's Yellow Submarine (1968) and the creations of Aardman Animations.
| Author | : Steve Chibnall |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 521 |
| Release | : 2019-07-25 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 183871863X |
This is the first book to provide a thorough examination of the British 'B' movie, from the war years to the 1960s. The authors draw on archival research, contemporary trade papers and interviews with key 'B' filmmakers to map the 'B' movie phenomenon both as artefact and as industry product, and as a reflection on their times.
