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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Rayner is Lecturer in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. British Naval Films and the Documentary Feature2. Post-war Naval Films and the Service Comedy3. Hollywood and the One-Ocean War 4. The Submarine War and the Submarine Film5. American Films of the Cold War6. "Damn the Photon Torpedoes!": Star Trek and the Transfiguration of Naval History7. Popularising the Navy, Rewriting the Past: Contemporary Naval FilmsConclusionFilmographyBibliographyAppendix I: Comparison of Narrative Elements in Naval War FilmsAppendix II: Warships in Feature FilmsIndex
