1. See, for example, Anthony Aldgate and Jeffrey Richards, Britain Can Take It: The British Cinema in the Second World War (Oxford, 1986);
2. Robert Murphy, Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939–48 (London, 1989);
3. Neil Rattigan, This Is England: British Film and the People’s War, 1939–1945 (London, 2001):
4. and Philip M. Taylor (ed.), Britain and the Cinema in the Second World War (London, 1988).
5. The first use of the term I have identified is by the documentarist John Shearman in his article ‘Wartime Wedding’, Documentary News Letter, 6: 54 (1946), p.53.