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Film and Reform

Ian Aitken
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British cinema history
British Documentary Film Movement
British Film
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Corporate Publicity
Documentary Film Movement
documentary film movement scholarship
Drifters Grierson
Empire Marketing Board Film Unit
Epic Cinema
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Film Unit
General Post Office Film Unit
Glasgow University
GPO Film
GPO Film Unit
Grierson's Ideas
Housing Problems Grierson
Ian Aitken
interwar cultural studies
Ivor Montagu
Jack C. Ellis
John Grierson
Motion Picture News
Next Five Years Group
Night Mail
North Sea Grierson
Paul Rotha
Post Office
Progressive Film Institute
propaganda in media
Propaganda Service
public relations theory
Realist Film Unit
scientific naturalism influence
Sir Kingsley Wood
social commentary analysis
State Film Production
Stephen Tallents
Swann's Argument
World Film News

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138991026
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Jan 2016
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Best known for his documentaries such as Drifters, North Sea, and Housing Problems, John Grierson was the most important figure in the British documentary film movement and one of the most influential of British film theorists.

This major assessment of Grierson and the documentary film movement examines the intellectual and aesthetic influences on his work, focusing on the material he produced in the inter-war years and comparing the idealistic strain of Grierson’s social commentary with other social reformists such as the Next Five Years Group and writers like Orwell and Priestley. Underlining the link between film and reform, the book clarifies the meaning and significance of Grierson’s ideas and the historical role of the documentary film movement. Originally published in 1990.

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