British humour and the Second World War : 'keep smiling through' / edited by Juliette Pattinson and Linsey Robb.
This book skilfully brings together cutting-edge historical research by leading and emerging researchers in the field to investigate the utilisation of British humour both during the Second World War and its legacy in British popular culture. Linsey Robb and Juliette Pattinson lead a cast of esteeme...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | New directions in social and cultural history (Series)
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Table of Contents:
- 'Few things in life are less funny than war' : Reclaiming the humour in the horror / Juliette Pattinson and Linsey Robb
- Observational comedy : Mass-Observation and the wartime joke, 1939-45 / Chris Smith
- 'Good-natured as any folk in the world' : The Ministry of Information Film and British Humour during the Second World War / Linsey Robb
- Making people laugh on the wartime BBC / Siân Nicholas
- 'I couldn't get a parrot, dear, so I brought a wren!' : The British Cartoon Archive and wartime visual culture / Juliette Pattinson
- 'E's a funny doctor' : Dickie Orpen and the visual humour of the Second World War reconstructive surgery ward / Christine Slobogin
- Taking 'the jagged edges off' : British naval humour during the Second World War / Frances Houghton
- 'Divided between ITMA and a sense of terror' : Humour and remembering the war for the BBC People's War Archive / Corinna Peniston-Bird
- Exploring The Real Dad's Army in the Imperial War Museum, London / Kasia Tomasiewicz
- Listening very carefully to 'Allo 'Allo : British comedy and the path to Brexit Gavin Schaffer