The essays which appear in this book for the most part originated as papers delivered at a conference on Britain and the cinema in the Second World War held in London in May 1985.
Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: Film, The Historian and the Second World War; P.M.Taylor - British Society in the Second World War; J.Ramsden - The British Film Industry: Audiences and Producers; R.Murphy - National Identity in British Wartime Films; J.Richards - The People as Stars: Feature Films as National Expression; P.Stead - British Cinema and the Reality of War; C.Coultass - British Historical Epics in the Second World War; N.Mace - Cinematic Support for the Anglo-American Detente, 1939-43; K.R.M.Short - Creative Tensions: 'Desert Victory', the Army Film Unit and Anglo-American Rivalry, 1943-45; T.Aldgate - The Representation of Women in British Feature Films, 1939-45; S.Harper - Notes and References - Index
