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Contents
Cover -- Men, War and Film: The Calling Blighty Films of World War II -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Talking with the Dead -- 1. Death and Disease in the Jungle: The War in Burma -- 2. The Ecology of Wartime Film -- 3. Living Letters: How the Films Came About -- 4. I'm in the Pink: An Overview of the Messages -- 5. Masculinity and the Soldier's Tale -- 6. The Invisible Men: Empire Soldiers and Calling Blighty -- 7. 'Dimmed by Happy Tears': Remembrance, Ritual and Forgetting -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary
The story and analysis of the Calling Blighty series of films made by the Combined Kinematograph Service in Burma and India between 1943 and 1946. These are remarkable and moving documents, a one-way Skype of their day, where men - and a very few women - sent spoken messages home to be shown to families and sweethearts in local cinemas. 42 illus
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