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THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY FILM MOVEMENT, 1926-1946
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| By: |
Paul Swann, William Rothman, Dudley Andrew |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521334799 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521334792 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 July, 1989 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Film |
| Pages: |
228 |
| Description: |
Paul Swann's study is a political and social history of the documentary film movement led by John Grierson in the 1930s and 1940s. |
| Synopsis: |
The most important and internationally influential development in British cinema was the documentary film movement led by John Grierson in the 1930s and 1940s. Paul Swann's study is a political and social history of this movement, which was characterized by actuality-based films made outside the commercial industry. Based upon examinations of official government records, this book provides a fascinating picture of how Grierson manipulated the civil service bureaucracy both for his own ends and, in his view, for the good of his country. The documentary movement was both a socially conscious group intent upon raising the consciousness - and consciences - of viewers, and something like a film school, providing opportunities to fledgling film-makers. Working in reaction to the escapist Hollywood films that then dominated British screens, the documentary film-makers drew upon traditions such as Soviet realism and the European avant-garde and used ordinary men and women instead of actors. |
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29 b/w illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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