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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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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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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Traditions in World Cinema
- Introduction
- 1. Enlightenment and Utility: Informational Film as Useful Cinema
- 2. We are a Little Land: Informational Film and Small-nation Cinema
- 3. Mapping Messiness: The Informational Film Archive and Actor- Network Theory
- 4. The Film World’s Cooperative Store: Institutions and Films of the 1930s and 1940s
- 5. A Film-progressive Nation: The Social Denmark Series and the British Documentary Movement
- 6. Somethin’ about Scandinavia: Danish Shorts on the Post-war International Scene
- 7. Citizens of the Future: Informational Film and the Welfare State
- 8. A Free Hand: The Art Film versus the Art of Documentary
- 9. Symphony of a Short Film: A City Called Copenhagen
- Conclusion
- References
- Index