The dam busters
"The film The Dam Busters was released in 1955, when war films were popular. Both critics and audience applauded and it made more at the box office than any other film of its year. With neither glamour nor stars to recommend it, this was a remarkable achievement. Director Michael Anderson succeeded in making a film of higher quality and deeper meaning than other war films of its time. It celebrated the gutsy ingenuity of the 'Brits at War', a sense of pride, John Ramsden argues, that has remain…
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- Full title :The dam busters / John Ramsden.
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"The film The Dam Busters was released in 1955, when war films were popular. Both critics and audience applauded and it made more at the box office than any other film of its year. With neither glamour nor stars to recommend it, this was a remarkable achievement. Director Michael Anderson succeeded in making a film of higher quality and deeper meaning than other war films of its time. It celebrated the gutsy ingenuity of the 'Brits at War', a sense of pride, John Ramsden argues, that has remained in British popular memory." "John Ramsden's lively and incisive book investigates the background, context and making of The Dam Busters; gives full attention to the film itself and reviews critical and popular reception. It proposes that the value of Britain's bombing campaign is now difficult to assess partly because it is influenced by the cultural impact of this film and asks how accurate a portrayal the film provides, though accuracy was both aimed at and claimed for the finished film."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Publication Date:2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):I.B. Tauris
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:128 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1860646360, 9781860646362
- oclc:ocm50404144
- LC Classification:PN1997.D36
- Dewey Decimal:791.4372
Table of Contents
Film credits -- -- Historical background: -- The raid and its significance -- The raid in memory, 1943-1955 -- Strategic bombing's uncomfortable reputation -- Revisiting the war on film -- -- Filming The Dam Busters: -- Preparations for filming -- Filming history -- -- The film: The Dam Busters: -- The intervention -- The training -- The raid -- The return -- -- Post-production: -- Completing the film -- The soundtrack -- Promotion, release and reception -- The Dam Busters at the box-office at home and abroad -- The after-life of a film.
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