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Call No: 761 SWA
Author: Swann, Paul
Source: UK
Place: Cambridge [England] ; New York
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 1989
PhysDes: x, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series: Cambridge studies in film
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; GPO FILM UNIT; GRIERSON, JOHN; LAW AND THE CINEMA; DISTRIBUTION; DISTRIBUTION. UK; ELTON, ARTHUR; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; INDEPENDENT FILMS; INDEPENDENT FILMS. UK; PROPAGANDA FILMS; POLITICAL FILMS
Summary: "The most important and 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 new examinations of official government records, this book provides a fascinating picture of how Grierson manipulated the civil services bureaucracy both for his own ends and, in his view, for the good of his country." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes index.
ISBN: 0521334799

Call No: 761(41) LOW
Author: Low, Rachael
Source: UK
Place: London, UK
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin
PubDate: 1979
PhysDes: 244 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Series: The History of British Film 1929-1939
Subject: BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; EDUCATION, USE OF FILMS IN; EDUCATION, FILM. UK; INDUSTRY, FILM. UK; INSTRUCTIONAL FILMS; PROPAGANDA FILMS; POLITICAL FILMS; TRUTH IN FILMS; ANSTEY, EDGAR; CAVALCANTI, ALBERTO; ELTON, ARTHUR; GRIERSON, JOHN; ROTHA, PAUL; WRIGHT, BASIL
Summary: "With the advent of sound a host of film makers began, during the 1930s, to explore the wider possibilities of film as a means of communication. Without doubt the most spectacular development during this decade of social and political unrest was the dramatic growth of the mainstream British documentary movement closely associated with names such as John Grierson and Paul Rotha, which is often described as Britain's most important contribution to world cinema. In these pages for the first time a full and detailed account is given of people involved in the documentary movement and a coherant attempt is made to date and describe their whole output. Rachael Low demonstrates how different documentary styles evolved, developed and changed - and eventually split into two distinct schools of film making. An equally important innovation in the 1930s was the first use of film for educational purposes. Rachael Low records in detail the many experiments and debates held to determine the best use of films in schools and the often disappointing attempts to produce satisfactory educational films."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: includes bibliographical references; incldues film listing includes index
ISBN: 0047910364
Contents: -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Educational Film -- 3. The Documentary Movement -- (i) Early Stages -- (ii) The Middle Years -- (iii) Maturity -- (iv) The End of the Decade -- 4. Reality and the Documentary Film -- Appendix: The British Film Institute -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Film List -- Index --

Call No: 761 BAR
Author: Barsam, Richard Meran
Place: London
Publisher: Allen and Unwin
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: xix, 332 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm
Subject: NON-FICTION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; PROPAGANDA FILMS; WAR FILMS; ANDERSON, LINDSAY; CAPRA, FRANK; CAVALCANTI, ALBERTO; VAN DONGEN, HELEN; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; GRIERSON, JOHN; HUSTON, JOHN; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KING, ALLAN; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LYE, LEN; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; PENNEBAKER, D. A.; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROTHA, PAUL; RUTTMAN, WALTER; STORCK, HENRI; VAN DYKE, WILLARD; VERTOV, DZIGA; WADLEIGH, MICHAEL; WATT, HARRY; WISEMAN, FREDERICK; WRIGHT, BASIL; BOND, RALPH; ANSTEY, EDGAR; LORENTZ, PARE; HAMMID, ALEXANDER; ROGOSIN, LIONEL; STEINER, RALPH; ELTON, ARTHUR; JACOBY, IRVING; LAND, THE (US, Robert Flaherty, 1942); FIGHT FOR LIFE, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1940); MAISONS DE LA MISERE, LES (BE, Henri Storck, 1937); ALL OF MY BABIES : A MIDWIFE'S OWN STORY (US, George Stoney, 1952); BATTLE OF RUSSIA, THE (US, Frank Capra, 1944); LET THERE BE LIGHT (US, John Huston, 1946); DON'T LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967)
Summary: "Nonfiction film is the first work to document the whole history of nonfiction film from the 1920s to the present day. The main emphasis of the book is on the British and American cinema and hundreds of documentary, action, and 'actuality' films from Nanook of the North to Woodstock and Gimme Shelter are described, discussed and analysed, including films by the great pioneers such as Robert Flaherty, Basil Wright, John Grierson and Paul Rotha and the new experimental film makers like Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker, Frederick Wiseman and Albert and David Maysles. Richard Barsam provides a critical framework against which the non-fiction film can be studied and enjoyed. Among the many topics covered are early American, Russian and Continental films, the British and American films of the twenties and thirties, the films of World War II and the whole range of styles and subjects of the fifties, sixties and today." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Originally published: New York : Dutton, 1973; Bibl.: p.317-321. - List of films: p.299-316. - Index
ISBN: 0047910313 (Pbk) : ª1.95; 0047910305
LON: 1923477
Contents: 1. Defining nonfiction film -- 2. The American, Russian, and continental beginnings -- 3. John Grierson and the early British documentary -- 4. British documentary in the later 1930's -- 5. European and American nonfiction film: 1930-1940 -- 6. The humanistic vision of Robert Flaherty -- 7. World War II on film -- 8. Nonfiction film in transition: 1940-1950 -- 9. Old traditions and new directions: 1950-1960 -- 10. The new nonfiction film: 1960-1970
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Call No: 62 KRA
Author: Kracauer, Siegfried
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1965
PhysDes: xix, 364 p. ill., 20 cm.
Subject: ACTORS; ADAPTATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; THEORY; AGEE, JAMES; ALEXANDROV, GROGORIO; ANGER, KENNETH; ANSTEY, EDGAR; ARNHEIM, RUDOLF; ASTAIRE, FRED; BALAZS, BELA; BENJAMIN, WALTER; BERGMAN, INGMAR; BOGART, HUMPHREY; BRAKHAGE, STAN; BRANDO, MARLON; BUNUEL, LUIS; CAGNEY, JAMES; CAPRA, FRANK; CASTELLANI, RENATO; CAVALCANTI, ALBERTO; CHANEY, LON; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; CLAIR, RENE; CLEMENT, RENE; CLOUZOT, HENRI-GEORGES; COCTEAU, JEAN; DALI, SALVADOR; DE FILIPPO, EDUARDO; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; DE SICA, VITTORIO; DISNEY, WALT; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR; DREYER, CARL TH.; DUCHAMP, MARCEL; DUVIVIER, JULIEN; ELTON, ARTHUR; ENGEL, MORRIS; EPSTEIN, JEAN; FELLINI, FEDERICO; FEUILLADE, LOUIS; FEYDER, JACQUES; FISCHINGER, OSKAR; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; FORD, JOHN; FRANJU, GEORGES; FREUD, SIGMUND; GANCE, ABEL; GARNETT, GALE; GIDE, ANDRE; GREENE, GRAHAM; GRIERSON, JOHN; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; GRIFFITHS, RICHARD; GUITRY, SACHA; HARRINGTON, CURTIS; HILL, DAVID; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; WACHSFIGURENKABINETT, DAS (G, Paul Leni, 1924); SMULTRONSTALLET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957); VITELLONI, I (IT, Federico Fellini, 1953); VAMPYR: THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF ALLEN GRAY [VAMPYR: DER TRAUM DES ALLAN GRAY] (G/FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932); VARIETE (G, E.A. Dupont, 1925); VALLEY TOWN - A STUDY OF MACHINES AND MEN (US, Willard Van Dyke, 1940); UMBERTO D. (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1952); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); THIRD MAN, THE (UK, Carol Reed, 1949); OKTIABR (UR, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1928); TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1956); SYMPHONIE PASTORALE, LA (FR, Jean Delannoy, 1946); SWING TIME (US, George Stevens, 1936); STRADA, LA (IT, Federico Fellini, 1954); ROMAN D'UN TRICHEUR, LE (FR, Sacha Guitry, 1936); MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946); SPIONE (G, Fritz Lang, 1928); SPELLBOUND (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1945); SOUS LES TOITS DE PARIS (FR, Rene Clair, 1930); SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (US, David Hand, 1937); SMILING LIEUTENANT, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1931); SHANE (US, George Stevens, 1953); SJUNDE INSEGLET, DET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957); GEHEIMNISSE EINER SEELE (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1926); SCARFACE (US, Howard Hawks, 1932); SANG DES BETES, LE (FR, Georges Franju,1949); SAN FRANCISCO (US, W.S. Van Dyke, 1936); ROUE, LA (FR, Abel Gance, 1922); ROMEO I DZULETTA (UR, Lev Arnstam & Leonid Lavrovskij, 1954); RICHARD III (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1955); REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939); RED SHOES, THE (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948); RASHOMON (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1950); REGEN (NE, Joris Ivens, 1929); PYGMALION (UK, Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard, 1938); PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951); PATHER PANCHALI (II, Satyajit Ray, 1955); PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928); PARIS 1900 (FR, Nicole Vedres, 1948); PARADINE CASE, THE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1947); OTELLO (UR, Sergej Jutkevic, 1956); ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954); OLVIDADOS, LOS (MX, Luis Bunuel, 1951); OF MEN AND MUSIC (US, Irving Reis, 1950); NOSFERATU - EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 1936); NIGHT AT THE OPERA, A (US, Sam Wood, 1935); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); MOULIN ROUGE (UK, E.A. Dupont, 1928); MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947); MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936); MOBY DICK (UK, John Huston, 1956); MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); MILLION, LE (FR, Rene Clair, 1931); METROPOLIS (GG, Fritz Lang, 1927); MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (US, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943); MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG (G, Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer, 1929); MARTY (US, Delbert Mann, 1954); MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1936); MAJOR BARBARA (UK, Gabriel Pascal, 1941); MADAME BOVARY (FR, Claude Chabrol, 1991); MACBETH (US, Orson Welles, 1948); M (G, Fritz Lang, 1931); LOVE PARADE, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929); LIMELIGHT (US, Charles Chaplin, 1952); LIFEBOAT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1944); OSTATNI ETAP (PL, Wanda Jakubowska, 1948); LADY IN THE LAKE (US, Robert Montgomery, 1946); KID, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1921); JULIUS CAESAR (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1953); JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927); IVAN GROZNY [IVAN THE TERRIBLE] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, pt.1:1945, pt.2:1958[prod.1946]); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); INVISIBLE MAN, THE (US, James Whale, 1933); INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916); HUMAN DESIRE (US, Fritz Lang, 1954); HOUSING PROBLEMS (UK, Edgar Anstey & Arthur Elton, 1935); HOTEL DES INVALIDES (FR, Georges Franju, 1952); HIGH NOON (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952); HENRY V (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1944); HEIRESS, THE (US, William Wyler, 1949); HATFUL OF RAIN, A (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1957); HAMLET (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1948); HALLELUJAH (US, King Vidor, 1929); GREED (US, Erich von Stroheim, 1925); GREAT EXPECTATIONS (UK, David Lean, 1946); GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940); GRANDE ILLUSION, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1937); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); GLASS MENAGERIE, THE (US, Irving Rapper, 1950); VORMITTAGSSPUK (G, Hans Richter, 1928); GHOST GOES WEST, THE (UK, Rene Clair, 1935); GHOST AND MRS MUIR, THE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1947); GERVAISE (FR, Rene Clement, 1956); JIGOKUMON (JA, Teinosuke kinugasa, 1953); FURY (US, Fritz Lang, 1936); [FOUR] HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1962); FARREBIQUE [FARREBIQUE OU LES QUATRE SAISONS] (FR, Georges Rouquier, 1946); FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940); ZEMLJA (UR, Alexksandr Dovzenko, 1930); DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (US, George Marshall, 1939); DESTINY [MUDE TOD, DER] (G, Fritz Lang, 1921); DEATH OF A SALESMAN (US, Laslo Benedek, 1951); DEAD OF NIGHT (UK, Alberto Cavalcanti & Charles Crichton & Basil Dearden & Robert Hamer, 1945); CONDAMNE A MORT S`EST ECHAPPE, UN (FR, Robert Bresson, 1956); CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931); CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); CINDERELLA (US, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Laske & Clyde Geronomi, 1950); CHIEN ANDALOU, UN (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1928); BROKEN BLOSSOMS (US, David Wark Griffith, 1919); BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938 (US, Norman Taurog, 1940); BRIEF ENCOUNTER (UK, David Lean, 1945); BOOMERANG (US, Elia Kazan, 1947); SANG D'UN POETE, LE (FR, Jean Cocteau, 1932); BLACKMAIL (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1929); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); LADRI DI BICICLETTE (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1949); BEZZERIDES, A.I.; BEN HUR (US, Fred Niblo, 1925); BAMBI (US, David Hand, 1942); BALLET MECANIQUE, LE (FR, Fernand Leger, 1924); BACK STREET (US, John M. Stahl, 1932); ATALANTE, L' (FR, Jean Vigo, 1934); A PROPOS DE NICE (FR, Jean Vigo, 1930); APARAJITO (II, Satyajit Ray, 1957); ANNA CHRISTIE (US, Clarence Brown, 1930); ANATOMY OF A MURDER (US, Otto Preminger, 1959); AMERICAN TRAGEDY, AN (Josef von Sternberg, 1931); ALEKSANDR NEVSKI (UR, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1938); BROADWAY MELODY, THE (US, Harry Beaumont, 1929); LETZIE MANN, DER (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1924)
Notes: Frist published 1960; Previously published as: Nature of films. England : Dobson ;1965; Includes bilbiograpy: p. 351-364; Includes index
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