This book undertakes a unique, coherent and comprehensive
consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema. The
films under discussion encompass all areas of naval operations in
war, and highlight varying institutional and aesthetic responses to
navies and the sea in popular culture. The examination of these
films centres on their similarities to and differences from the
conventions of the war genre and seeks to determine whether the
distinctive characteristics of naval film narratives justify their
categorisation as a separate genre or sub-genre in popular cinema.
The explicit factual bases and drama-documentary style of many key
naval films, such as In Which We Serve, They Were Expendable and
Das Boot, also requires the consideration of these films as texts
for popular historical transmission. Their frequent reinforcement
of establishment views of the past, which derives from their
conservative ideological position towards national and naval
culture, makes these films key texts for the consideration of
national cinemas as purveyors of contemporary history as popularly
conceived by filmmakers and received by audiences. -- .
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