This
chapter outlined the general aims and rationale of the
project, including the current interest in the subject,
both general nostalgia, and academic reasons. It relates
the project to current historiography and provide a
literature review of the key
texts relevant to the project. This chapter dealt
with the conceptual elements of the study, particularly
the arguments surrounding the definitions of propaganda,
and approaches to the study of the poster, which define
its form and function. It considered the form and function
of other media used in the Second World War, and where
the poster fits into this. The chapter also outlines
the remaining chapters of the thesis.
- Historiography
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Trends in History (Main Trends in the Social and
Human Sciences) 1991
- Bloch, E. et
al. The
Utopian Function in Art and Literature: Selected
Essays (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
1989
- Gombrich, E.H.
The
Uses of Images: Studies in the Social Function of
Art and Visual Imagery 2000
- Marwick, A.
The
Nature of History 1989
- Tosh, J. The
Pursuit of History 2002
- World War II
- Briggs, S Keep
Smiling Through 1975 (Out of Print) *Populist
- Calder, A The
Myth of the Blitz 1992
- Calder, A. The
People's War: Britain 1939-1945 (1969) 1992
- Campbell, J. The
Experience of World War II 2002 *Populist
- Davies, J. The
Wartime Kitchen and Garden 1993 (Out of
Print) *Populist
- Donnelly, M. Britain
in the Second World War 1999
- Longmate,
N. How
We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life During
the Second World War Pimlico, 2002 (First
printed 1971)
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- Minns, R. Bombers
and Mash: The Domestic Front, 1939-1945
1999 *Populist
- Pope, R. War
and Society in Britain 1899-1948 1991
- Smith, M Britain
and 1940: History, Myth and Popular Memory
2000
See PhD
Proposal and Bibliography
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