Propaganda, Politics and Film, 1918–45

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
British official attitudes towards propaganda abroad, 1918–39....Pages 23-49
‘Showing the world what it owed to Britain’: foreign policy and ‘cultural propaganda’, 1935–45....Pages 50-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
The people and the pictures. The British working class and film in the 1930s....Pages 77-97
The political censorship of films in Britain between the wars....Pages 98-125
Baldwin and film....Pages 126-143
The workers’ film movement in Britain, 1929–39....Pages 144-156
Political polarisation and French cinema, 1934–39....Pages 157-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
The news media at war....Pages 173-208
The Crown Film Unit, 1940–43....Pages 209-220
The non-theatrical distribution of films by the Ministry of Information....Pages 221-233
Films and the Home Front — the evaluation of their effectiveness by ‘Mass-Observation’....Pages 234-245
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Soviet documentary film, 1917–40....Pages 249-269
Soviet newsreel and the Great Patriotic War....Pages 270-292
Back Matter....Pages 293-302