Morgan Miller @URCAD XXII

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:48:25 -0400
history, research, urcad

Come to URCAD on Wednesday, April 25, History major Morgan Miller will present her research, 'Humphrey Jennings and the Documentary of the “People’s War”'.

The purpose of my research is to examine the work of Humphrey Jennings, a British documentary filmmaker during the Second World War. My particular focus is to examine how his highly influential films helped lay the foundations for what historians today refer to as the myth of the “People’s War”; a widespread belief in Britain that the war effort had rested in large measure on the extraordinary efforts and resilience of ordinary civilians on the home front.

Read the rest of her abstract here... #umbcurcad