The Electoral Imagination offers a critical account of the aesthetic and imaginative choices that inform and, in some cases, determine the nature and course of democratic elections. It works both to understand the systems we use to move between the one and the many and to offer an alternative to the 'myth of rigging.'
Exploring the intersection of cinema and wartime, Kent Puckett examines how British filmmakers navigated the challenges of representing World War II. The war's vast scale and impact on daily life, including aerial bombings and rationing, prompted filmmakers to innovate in their storytelling and visual techniques. This work highlights the unique opportunities and complexities that arose in depicting a total war, shedding light on the evolving role of film as a medium for capturing the realities of conflict.
Introduction -- "But what is it about?": the life and death of Colonel Blimp -- Pistol's two bodies: Henry V at war -- Celia Johnson's face: before and after brief encounter -- Epilogue: Derek Jarman's war.
Kent Puckett's Narrative Theory offers readers an introduction to the field's key figures, methods and ideas, and it also reveals that field as unexpectedly central to the history of ideas by providing an account of a methodology of narrative increasingly central to literary studies, film studies, history, psychology and beyond.