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Humphrey Jennings
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ISBN: 1781701830 1847792685 9781847792686 9781781701836 9780719078552 0719078555 Year: 2010 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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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 1930's and 1940's. Poet, propagandist, surrealist and documentary film maker - Jennings' work embodies an outstanding mix of startling apprehension, personal expression and representational innovation. This book carefully examines and expertly explains the central components


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Humphrey Jennings and British documentary film : a re-assessment
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ISBN: 9780754667261 9781409427391 1409427390 075466726X 1283090430 9781283090438 131711938X 1317119371 9786613090430 9781315587653 9781317119364 9781317119371 1315587653 Year: 2011 Publisher: Farnham Ashgate

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During a short career between 1939 and 1950, Humphrey Jennings produced a number of outstanding films documenting everyday life in Britain. In this new book, Philip Logan offers a thorough reassessment of Jennings's intellectual background and the factors that informed his life. Through an understanding of the historical context within which Jennings's films were produced and directed Logan suggests we can begin to much better understand the propaganda messages that inform them, and thus gain a fuller insight into the nature, character and purpose of the films he produced for the British war e

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