War, culture, and the media : representations of the military in 20th century Britain / edited by Ian Stewart and Susan L. Carruthers.

Other author Stewart, Ian.
Other author Carruthers, Susan L. (Susan Lisa)
Format Book
Publication InfoTrowbridge, Wiltshire : Flicks Books ; Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996.
Descriptionvi, 202 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction / Ian Stewart, Susan L. Carruthers -- The influence of the media on recent British military operations / Stephen Badsey -- British propaganda and the First World War / Andrew Steed -- "Civilians entrenched" : the British home front and the attitudes to the First World War, 1914-18 / Lloyd Clark -- "Oh! What a futile war" : representations of the Western Front in modern British media and popular culture / G.D. Sheffield -- Presenting arms : portrayals of war and the military in British cinema / Ian Stewart -- Cultural myths and realities : the British Army, war, and Empire as portrayed on film, 1900-90 / Edmund J. Yorke -- Reporting terrorism : the British state and the media, 1919-94 / Susan L. Carruthers -- Media misperceptions of Saddam Hussein's army / Sean McKnight -- From Morse to modem : developments in transmission technologies and their impact upon the military-media relationship / John Allen -- The meanings of war-toys and war-games / Jonathan Bignell -- Postmodernism and military history / Nigel de Lee.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 191-193) and index.
LCCN 95051080
ISBN0948911859 (Flicks Books : alk. paper)
ISBN0838637027 (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press : alk. paper)