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Documentary Film Movement: An Anthology Paperback – 1 July 1998
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Aitken
(Author)
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This book is the first to bring together the most important material by and on the documentary film movement which has laid the foundations of British national film culture. It includes generous selections from the work of John Grierson as well as writings by Paul Rotha, Humphrey Jennings, Alberto Cavalcanti and Basil Wright. Each section is accompanied by short commentaries.
- Print length224 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherEdinburgh University Press
- Publication date1 July 1998
- Dimensions15.6 x 2.54 x 23.39 cm
- ISBN-100748609482
- ISBN-13978-0748609482
- Lexile measure1400L
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A useful collection of material
The texts collected here gives a vivid sense of the intellectual orientations, motivations, relationships between, and achievements of, the featured individuals. British documentary scholars will have encountered most of his material before ... Aitken's anthology ... is the first recent publication to pisition itself as an authoriitative collection of source material on the movement as a whole.
The texts collected here gives a vivid sense of the intellectual orientations, motivations, relationships between, and achievements of, the featured individuals. British documentary scholars will have encountered most of his material before ... Aitken's anthology ... is the first recent publication to pisition itself as an authoriitative collection of source material on the movement as a whole.
About the Author
Ian Aitken is Professor of Film Studies at the School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University. His publications include Hong Kong Documentary Film (2014), Lukácsian Film Theory and Cinema: An Analysis of Georg Lukács' Writings on Film 1913-1971 (2012), The Major Realist Film Theorists, (2016), Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asian (2016) and Cinematic Realism (2020).
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- Publisher : Edinburgh University Press (1 July 1998)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0748609482
- ISBN-13 : 978-0748609482
- Dimensions : 15.6 x 2.54 x 23.39 cm
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