Shadows of Progress
Documentary Film in Post-War Britain
(Sprache: Englisch)
This unique book combines an overview of British documentary cinema from 1945 to the early 1980s with profiles of major filmmakers of the period, outlining their career histories and key themes of their work, alongside useful resource information about how films from the period can be viewed.
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This unique book combines an overview of British documentary cinema from 1945 to the early 1980s with profiles of major filmmakers of the period, outlining their career histories and key themes of their work, alongside useful resource information about how films from the period can be viewed.
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Britain emerged from war a changed country, facing new social, industrial and cultural challenges. Its documentary film tradition - established in the 1930s and 1940s around legendary figures such as Grierson, Rotha and Jennings - continued evolving, utilising technical advances, displaying robust aesthetic concerns, and benefiting from the entry into the industry of wealthy commercial sponsors. Thousands of films were seen by millions worldwide. Received wisdom has been that British documentary went into swift decline after the war, resurrected only by Free Cinema and the arrival of television documentary. Shadows of Progress demolishes these simplistic assumptions, presenting instead a complex and nuanced picture of the sponsored documentary in flux. Patrick Russell and James Piers Taylor explore the reasons for the period's critical neglect, and address the sponsorship, production, distribution and key themes of British documentary. They paint a vivid picture of institutions - from public bodies to multinational industries - constantly redefining their relationships with film as a form of enlightened public relations. Many of the issues that these films addressed could not be more topical today: the rise of environmentalism; the balance of state and industry, individual and community; a nation and a world travelling from bust to boom and back again. In the second part of the book, contributors from the curatorial and academic world provide career biographies of key film-makers of the period. From Lindsay Anderson's lesser-known early career to neglected film-makers like John Krish, Sarah Erulkar, Eric Marquis and Derrick Knight, a kaleidoscopic picture is built up of the myriad relationships of artist and sponsor.
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Acknowledgments.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction: Whatever Happened to the Documentary Movement?.- PART ONE: BETWEEN THE TIDES: MAPPING POST-WAR DOCUMENTARY.- The Long Tail.- Documentary Culture: Groupings, Gatherings and Writings.- Films Nobody Sees?: Distribution and Exhibition.- Production.- Sponsorship.- Themes.- PART TWO: THE NEW EXPLORERS: CAREERS IN POST-WAR DOCUMENTARY.- Introduction.- People, Productivity and Change: P.Bradford & T.Boon.- The World Still Sings: J.Howells & D.Berry.- 'I Don't Thing He Did Anything Else: P.Dickson & L.Enticknap.- Conflict and Confluence: Michael Orrom & K.McGahan.- Documentary on the Move: T.Thompson, B.Mason, G.Jones & S.Foxon.- Pictures Should Be Steady: J.Hill & J.Piers Taylor.- Less Film Society More Fleet Street: P.Hopkinson & J.Piers Taylor.- Science and Society: P.Noemanville, S.Erulkar, R.Cranston & K.McGahan.- Shooting the Message: J.Krish & P.Russell.- Who's Driving?: P.Pickering & P.Russell.- The Passing Stranger: A.Simmons & M.Brooke.- Meet the Pioneers Early; L.Anderson & E.Hedling.- A Person Apart: G.Brenton & R.Cranston.- Tracts of Time: D.Williams & P.Russell.- Savage Voyages: Eric Marquis & R.Vick.- Between Two Worlds: D.Knight & B.Hogenkamp.- Index.
Autoren-Porträt
Patrick Russell is Senior Curator (Non-Fiction Film and Television), BFI National Archive, UK. He is the author of 100 British Documentaries (2007) and co-editor of The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon (BFI 2004) and Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-War Britain (2010) and has been a regular contributor to BFI Screenonline. JAMES PIERS TAYLOR is an independent curator and film historian. He has worked previously in several film archives, including those of the BBC, the BFI, the Imperial War Museum, ITN, ITV and Reuters.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2010, 2010, 384 Seiten, 139 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 17,8 x 24,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Patrick Russell, James Taylor
- Verlag: British Film Institute
- ISBN-10: 1844573222
- ISBN-13: 9781844573226
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.08.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
In future years, this book. may be seen as a turning point in documentary study. Journal of Historical Film, Radio and Television David Rolinson
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