Авиация / Bomber Boys on Screen: RAF Bomber Command in Film and Television Drama

Название: Bomber Boys on Screen: RAF Bomber Command in Film and Television Drama
Автор(ы): S. P. MacKenzie
Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Год: 2019
Страниц: 211
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 18 MB

Since the Second World War, depictions of Royal Air Force operations in film and television drama have become so numerous that they make up a genre worthy of scholarly attention. In this illuminating study, S. P. MacKenzie explores the different ways in which the men of RAF Bomber Command have been represented in dramatic form on the big and small screen from the war years to the present day. Bomber Boys on Screen is the first in-depth study of how and why the screen-drama image of those who flew, those who directed them, and those who provided support for RAF bomber operations has changed over time, sometimes in contested circumstances