Food Companions - Cinema and Consumption in Wartime Britain, 1939-45

Informationen zum Autor Richard Farmer is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Film Studies at University College London Klappentext The introduction of rationing in January 1940 ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. The food companions investigates the cinema of this period and demonstrates the cultural impact that rationing and food control had on both government propaganda and commercial feature films.Combining archival research, detailed film analysis, and the extensive use of contemporary documents and resources, this book is the first to fully address the extensive propaganda work of the Ministry of Food both inside and outside the cinema. It also explores the tensions contained in images of communal dining, investigating the role that food played in Gainsborough's narratives of excess and identifying and analysing a cycle of black-market feature films. Lively and illuminating, The food companions will be welcomed by film scholars, historians, students, and anyone who has ever wondered about the important contribution that tea made during the war to shaping ideas of Britishness. Zusammenfassung The introduction of rationing ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. The food companions investigates the cinema of this period and demonstrates the cultural impact that rationing and food control had on both government propaganda and commercial feature films. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on sourcesList of abbreviationsIntroduction: This is a film about food!1. Not so quiet on the kitchen front: Ministry of Food publicity in the Second World War2. Food flash! Ministry of Food short film publicity3. Laying a table for a family of forty-five million: Celebrating and contesting communal consumption4. The rat in England's storehouse: The black market in wartime cinema5. The honourable company of tea drinkers: Using food to position Britain, her allies and her enemiesConclusionAppendix: List of food flash filmsFilmographyBibliographyIndex...

Product details

• Authors: Richard Farmer, Farmer Richard
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Richards (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2011
• EAN: 9780719083136
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8313-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Studies in Popular Culture; Studies in Popular Culture (Ha; Studies in Popular Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, Food & society, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Cultural studies: food and society