Culture and Propaganda in World War II: Music, Film and the Battle for National Identity

by John Morris

Book Overview

The wartime period in Britain is now seen as an extremely fertile period of British creativity in music, film and art. Often, these projects were funded and supported by the government, who saw its role as a custodian of British culture, and by extension, of British values, at a time when those values seemed under great threat. In the late thirties the Nazi Party had stressed the superiority of Germanic culture and the promotion of Richard Wagner...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780763972
• ISBN13: 9781780763972
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.6"