Re-presenting war

James Chapman (1)

1 Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Cardiovascular Disease

This article examines a cycle of British drama-documentaries about the Second World War broadcast in 2004-5: and It places these films in the context of the drama-documentary tradition in British film and television; it considers the institutional and cultural contexts of their production; it analyses their formal properties, especially their combination of actuality film with dramatic reconstruction; and it examines the extent to which they offer a revisionist perspective on the British historical experience of the Second World War. The article argues that these films represent a significant new direction for representing history on television.

Mots clés: Blitz; Britain; D-Day; drama-documentary; Dunkirk; history; Second World War; television

James Chapman. Re-presenting war. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2007, 10 (1), pp.13-33. ⟨10.1177/1367549407072968⟩. ⟨hal-00571532⟩