This is England

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This is England is written by Neil Rattigan and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0838638627 (ISBN 10) and 9780838638620 (ISBN 13).

Third, that the condition of total war in which Britain found itself a short time after the commencement of hostilities would mean that films, and indeed, all mass/popular culture, would respond to the urgency of the situation by taking a special interest in representations of British society. And fourth, following on from this, that British films of the Second World War would, one way or another, be agents of propaganda. From these propositions, the book examines just what these films had to say about social class in the images of Britain they were promulgating, with the corollaries of just how were they saying it, and why were they saying it. Alongside this is a concern with what propaganda purposes were being met by these films."--Jacket.