British humour and the Second World War : 'keep smiling through'

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of figures = vi
• List of tables =vii
• Acknowledgements =viii
• Author biographies = ix
• 1 ‘Few things in life are less funny than war’ : Reclaiming the humour
• in the horror Juliette Pattinson and Linsey Robb = 1
• 2 Observational comedy : Mass-Observation and the wartime joke,
• 1939-45 Chris Smith = 17
• 3 ‘Good-natured as any folk in the world’ : The Ministry
• of Information Film and British Humour during the
• Second World War Linsey Robb = 41
• 4 Making people laugh on the wartime BBC Sian Nicholas = 63
• 5 ‘I couldn’t get a parrot, dear, so I brought a wren!’ : The British
• Cartoon Archive and wartime visual culture Juliette Pattinson = 85
• 6 ‘’E’s a funny doctor’ : Dickie Orpen and the visual humour of the
• Second World War reconstructive surgery ward Christine Slobogin = 111
• 7 Taking ‘the jagged edges off’ : British naval humour during the
• Second World War Frances Houghton = 137
• 8 ‘Divided between ITMA and a sense of terror’ : Humour and
• remembering the war for the BBC People’s War Archive
• Corinna Peniston-Bird = 161
• 9 Exploring The Real Dads Army in the Imperial War Museum,
• London Kasia Tomasiewicz = 181
• 10 Listening very carefully to 'Allo 'Allo : British comedy and the path
• to Brexit Gavin Schaffer = 199
• Index = 216