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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. British Naval Films and the Documentary Feature
2. Post-war Naval Films and the Service Comedy
3. Hollywood and the One-Ocean War
4. The Submarine War and the Submarine Film
5. American Films of the Cold War
6. “Damn the Photon Torpedoes!”: Star Trek and the Transfiguration of Naval History
7. Popularising the Navy, Rewriting the Past: Contemporary Naval Films
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography
Appendix I: Comparison of Narrative Elements in Naval War Films
Appendix II: Warships in Feature Films
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 3/31/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719070983, 978-0719070983
      ISBN10: 0719070988

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. British Naval Films and the Documentary Feature
      2. Post-war Naval Films and the Service Comedy
      3. Hollywood and the One-Ocean War
      4. The Submarine War and the Submarine Film
      5. American Films of the Cold War
      6. “Damn the Photon Torpedoes!”: Star Trek and the Transfiguration of Naval History
      7. Popularising the Navy, Rewriting the Past: Contemporary Naval Films
      Conclusion
      Filmography
      Bibliography
      Appendix I: Comparison of Narrative Elements in Naval War Films
      Appendix II: Warships in Feature Films
      Index

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