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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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Book category Książki po angielsku The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: British Documentary Film Movement, 1926-1946
• Author: Paul Swann
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228
• EAN: 9780521063234
• ISBN: 052106323X
• ID: 02020240
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 346 g
• Dimensions: 152 × 227 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. May 2008

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