Everybody’s Business: Film, Food and Victory in the First World War.
One month after the outbreak of the Second World War, the ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign was introduced in Britain in an attempt to grow more food to feed a nation in conflict, at which time the government persuaded people on the Home Front to convert their gardens into allotments in order to cultivate...
| Publicado en: | Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 579 - 596 |
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Dec2015
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=110952454&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 110952454 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01439685 HFT jtl: Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television issn: 01439685 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2015 vid: 35 iid: 4 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 110952454 10.1080/01439685.2014.952102 ppf: 579 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 163KB tig: atl: Everybody’s Business: Film, Food and Victory in the First World War. aug: au: Hockenhull, Stella affil: University of Wolverhampton, MC333 Millennium City Building, Wulfruna Street, WolverhamptonWV1 1LY, UK. su: World War I World War I films Motion pictures in propaganda Government films World War II World War II -- Food supply Food supply United Kingdom sug: subj: United Kingdom World War I World War I films Motion pictures in propaganda Government films World War II World War II -- Food supply Food supply ab: One month after the outbreak of the Second World War, the ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign was introduced in Britain in an attempt to grow more food to feed a nation in conflict, at which time the government persuaded people on the Home Front to convert their gardens into allotments in order to cultivate vegetables. Correspondingly, strategies were also created to encourage farmers to transform their land as part of the war effort. The campaign for the production of food not only concerned the need to educate in order to provide for the country, but also provided an impetus for community and patriotism. Outlining the need for home-grown products and productive cultivation of the landscape, Dig for Victory in the Second World War was a scheme that was professional from the outset involving the screening of numerous newsreels and documentaries in its implementation. That this plan was mobilised at such short notice owes a debt to the First World War, a period that witnessed the birth of film as official propaganda. However, the main disparity between the two film campaigns lies in their strategies for dealing with the populace. The Second World War was deemed ‘the People’s War,’ using the working class as central protagonists with the aim of disregarding class difference. Alternatively, the First World War deployed upper-and middle-class characters in fiction films in order to educate. These practices were put into operation despite the fact that the cinema audience during this period was predominantly comprised of those fighting starvation, and indeed those actually ‘digging for victory.’ This article analyses the strategies inaugurated in the cinematic food campaign in the First World War in both newsreels and fiction film, and traces a trajectory to the Dig for Victory campaign in the Second World War. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2015 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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