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The documentary film movement : an anthology /

The documentary film movement of the 1930s and 1940s is deemed to lie at the heart of the modern British film culture. This is the first anthology to focus on the period.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Aitken, Ian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, Ã1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: John Grierson and the documentary film movement 1989-1972
  • The films of the documentary film movement
  • The historical context of the documentary film movement
  • Grierson's theory of documentary film
  • The critical debates on the documentary film movement
  • 2. John Grierson (1898-1972)
  • Commentary
  • English cinema production and the naturalistic tradition (1927)
  • The character of an ultimate synthesis (1922)
  • Untitled lecture on documentary (1927-33)
  • Drifters (1929)
  • First principles of documentary (1932)
  • Education and the new order (1941)
  • The documentary idea (1942)
  • Preface to Paul Rotha's Documentary Film (1952)
  • Art and revolution (1966)
  • Answers to a Cambridge questionnaire (1967)
  • I remember, I remember (1970)
  • 3. Paul Rotha (1907-84)
  • Commentary
  • Afterthought (1972)
  • Films and the Labour Party (1936)
  • 4. Alberto Cavalcanti (1897-1982)
  • Commentary
  • Cavalcanti in England (1975)
  • The evolution of cinematography in France (1936)
  • The British contribution (1952)
  • 5. Humphrey Jennings (1907-50)
  • Commentary
  • Listen to Britain (1942)
  • The English (1948)
  • Surrealism (1936)
  • Introduction to Pandaemonium (c. 1948)
  • 6. Basil Wright (1907-87)
  • Commentary
  • Documentary today (1947)
  • Interview with Ian Aitken (1987).