British humour and the Second World War : 'keep smiling through' / edited by Juliette Pattinson and Linsey Robb.

Other author Pattinson, Juliette, editor.
Other author Robb, Linsey, 1986- editor.
Format Book
PublicationLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Copyright Date©2023
Descriptionx, 218 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Subjects

Variant title British humour and World War II
Variant title British humour and the 2nd World War
Portion of title Keep smiling through
SeriesNew directions in social and cultural history
New directions in social and cultural history (Series) ^A1454652
Contents 'Few things in life are less funny than war' : Reclaiming the humour in the horror / Juliette Pattinson and Linsey Robb -- Observational comedy : Mass-Observation and the wartime joke, 1939-45 / Chris Smith -- 'Good-natured as any folk in the world' : The Ministry of Information Film and British Humour during the Second World War / Linsey Robb -- Making people laugh on the wartime BBC / Siân Nicholas -- 'I couldn't get a parrot, dear, so I brought a wren!' : The British Cartoon Archive and wartime visual culture / Juliette Pattinson -- 'E's a funny doctor' : Dickie Orpen and the visual humour of the Second World War reconstructive surgery ward / Christine Slobogin -- Taking 'the jagged edges off' : British naval humour during the Second World War / Frances Houghton -- 'Divided between ITMA and a sense of terror' : Humour and remembering the war for the BBC People's War Archive / Corinna Peniston-Bird -- Exploring The Real Dad's Army in the Imperial War Museum, London / Kasia Tomasiewicz -- Listening very carefully to 'Allo 'Allo : British comedy and the path to Brexit Gavin Schaffer
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9781350199484
Genre/formHumor.
LCCN 2023939542
ISBN9781350201668
ISBN1350201669 (hb)
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