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Humphrey Jennings
ISBN: 9780719078552 | 0719078555
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Manchester University Press
Pub. Date: 8/15/2010
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Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of representational approaches transcended accepted notions of wartime propaganda and revised the strict codes of British documentary film of the 1930s and 1940s. Poet, propagandist, surrealist and documentary filmmaker -- Jenning's work embodies an outstanding mix of startling apprehension, personal expression and representational innovation. This book carefully exa... MORE
| Series Editors' Foreword | p. ix |
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Modernity, myth, colour and collage: the early films | p. 14 |
| Work and leisure: Spare Time | p. 31 |
| Sound, image and nation: Words for Battle and Listen to Britain | p. 47 |
| Documentary reconstruction and prognostication: Fires Were Started and The Silent Village | p. 82 |
| 'What will befall Britain?' ... MORE | p. 103 |
| An ambiguous national iconography: Family Portrait | p. 118 |
| Legacies | p. 132 |
| Afterword | p. 143 |
| Filmography | p. 145 |
| References | p. 154 |
| Index | p. 167 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Keith Beattie is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University, Melbourne.
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