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Film and Reform: John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement book cover

1st Edition

Film and Reform John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement

By Ian Aitken Copyright 1990
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Foreword Jack C. Ellis  Introduction  1. John Grierson  2. John Grierson and the Influence of American Scientific Naturalism 1924-7  3. Grierson’s Aesthetic 1924-7  4. John Grierson, the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit, and the Documentary Film Movement 1927-33  5. The General Post Office Film Unit 1933-9  6. Public Relations, Propaganda and Documentary Film 1900-39  7. Documentary Film and Reform  8. The Influence of Idealism

Biography

Ian Aitken

Reviews of the original edition:

"Film and Reform amounts to…an extraordinarily expansive intellectual biography…a valuable guidebook…Any subsequent writing….will have to incorporate these findings." – Jack Ellis

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