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The British Documentary Film Movement, 1926–1946

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  • Author: Paul Swann, Temple University, Philadelphia
  • Date Published: May 2008
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521063234

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  • 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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    • Date Published: May 2008
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521063234
    • length: 228 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 152 x 13 mm
    • weight: 0.353kg
    • contains: 29 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    1. Introduction: the British documentary film movement
    2. The empire marketing board film unit, 1926–1933
    3. The general post office film unit, 1933–1937
    4. The general post office film unit, 1937–1940
    5. The 'independent' documentary film, 1932–1939
    6. The British documentary film, trade propaganda, and national projection, 1926–1939
    7. The documentary movement during the war, 1939–1945
    8. Conclusion
    Appendix
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index.

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    Paul Swann, Temple University, Philadelphia

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