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The naval war film : genre, history, national cinema

Undertaking a coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema, this book focuses on the examination of the films which seeks to determine whether the distinctive characteristics of naval film narratives justify their categorization as a separate genre or sub-genre in popular cinema
Print Book, English, 2007
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in USA. by Palgrave, Manchester, UK, New York, 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
275 pages ; 24 cm
9780719070983, 0719070988
71238964
British naval films and the documentary feature
Post-war British naval films and the service comedy
Hollywood and the one-ocean war
The submarine war and the submarine film
American films of the Cold War
'Damm the photon torpedoes!' Star Trek and the transfiguration of naval history
Popularising the navy, rewriting the past : contemporary naval films