The food companions : cinema and consumption in wartime Britain, 1939 - 45 / Richard Farmer

English

Manchester [u.a.] : Manchester Univ. Press [u.a.], 2011

XVI, 256 S. : Ill. ; 25 cm

Zugl.: Norwich, Univ., Diss.

978-0-7190-8313-6

Introduction: this is a film about food! -- Not so quiet on the kitchen front: Ministry of Food publicity in the Second World War -- Food flash! Ministry of Food short film publicity -- Laying a table for a family of 45 million: celebrating and contesting communal consumption -- The rat in England's storehouse: the black market in wartime cinema -- The Honourable company of Tea Drinkers: using food to position Britain, her allies and her enemies.

*Großbritannien / Film / Lebensmittelversorgung / Zweiter Weltkrieg / Hochschulschrift

*World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war ; Rationing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century ; Motion pictures in propaganda -- Great Britain -- History

Library of Congress Classification: PN1993.5.G7

Dewey Decimal Classification: [22] 791.43094109044

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: AP 44930

The introduction of rationing ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. 'The Food Companions' investigates the cinema of this period and demonstrates the cultural impact that rationing and food control had on both government propaganda and commercial feature films

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