The Naval War Film Genre, History and National Cinema

by Rayner, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780719070983
• ISBN10: 0719070988
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-15
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Jonathan Rayner is Lecturer in film and literature studies in the English Department at the University of Sheffield.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
British naval films and the documentary feature	p. 32
Post-war British naval films and the service comedy	p. 54
Hollywood and the one-ocean war	p. 80
The submarine war and the submarine film	p. 103
American films of the Cold War	p. 120
'Damn the photon torpedoes!' Star Trek and the transfiguration of naval history	p. 153
Popularising the navy, rewriting the past: contemporary naval films	p. 173
Conclusion	p. 208
Comparison of narrative elements in naval war films	p. 227
Warships in feature films	p. 231
Filmography	p. 240
Bibliography	p. 257
Index	p. 269
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