Short Films from a Small Nation : : Danish Informational Cinema 1935–1965 / / C. Claire Thomson.
The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational filmFor three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned directors like Carl Th. Dreyer. The first book-length study...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Traditions in World Cinema : TWC
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 25 B/W illustrations |
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t List of Figures -- |t Acknowledgements -- |t Traditions in World Cinema -- |t Introduction -- |t 1. Enlightenment and Utility: Informational Film as Useful Cinema -- |t 2. We are a Little Land: Informational Film and Small-nation Cinema -- |t 3. Mapping Messiness: The Informational Film Archive and Actor- Network Theory -- |t 4. The Film World’s Cooperative Store: Institutions and Films of the 1930s and 1940s -- |t 5. A Film-progressive Nation: The Social Denmark Series and the British Documentary Movement -- |t 6. Somethin’ about Scandinavia: Danish Shorts on the Post-war International Scene -- |t 7. Citizens of the Future: Informational Film and the Welfare State -- |t 8. A Free Hand: The Art Film versus the Art of Documentary -- |t 9. Symphony of a Short Film: A City Called Copenhagen -- |t Conclusion -- |t References -- |t Index |
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520 | |a The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational filmFor three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned directors like Carl Th. Dreyer. The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s. Examining the life cycle of a representative selection of films, and discussing their preservation and mediation in the digital age, this book presents a detailed case study of how informational cinema is shaped by, and indeed shapes, its cultural, political and technological contexts.Key featuresCombines close textual analysis of a broad range of films with detailed accounts of their commissioning, production, distribution and reception in Denmark and abroadConsiders a broad range of genres and sub-genres, including industrial process films, public information films, art films, the city symphony, the essay film, and many moreMaps international networks of informational and documentary films in the post-war periodExplores the role of informational film in Danish cultural and political history Access additional resources on the Danish Film Institute websiteClaire Thomson discusses Danish public information films on the BBC podcast" | ||
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