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Re-presenting war
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Abstract This article examines a cycle of British drama-documentaries about the Second World War broadcast in 2004-5: Dunkirk, D-Day, When Hitler Invaded Britain D-Day to Berlin and Blitz: London's Firestorm. It places these films in the context of the drama-documentary tradition in British film and televisi... view more
This article examines a cycle of British drama-documentaries about the Second World War broadcast in 2004-5: Dunkirk, D-Day, When Hitler Invaded Britain D-Day to Berlin and Blitz: London's Firestorm. It places these films in the context of the drama-documentary tradition in British film and television; it considers the institutional and cultural contexts of their production; it analyses their formal properties, especially their combination of actuality film with dramatic reconstruction; and it examines the extent to which they offer a revisionist perspective on the British historical experience of the Second World War. The article argues that these films represent a significant new direction for representing history on television.... view less
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Blitz; Britain; D-Day; drama-documentary; Dunkirk; history; Second World War; television;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
Page/Pages
p. 13-33
Journal
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 10 (2007) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549407072968
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)