Short films from a small nation : Danish informational cinema 1935-1965 / C. Claire Thomson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomson, C. Claire, author.

Series:

Traditions in world cinema.

Traditions in world cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short films.

Short films--Denmark.

Instructional films--Denmark.

Instructional films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Summary:

For three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned directors like Carl Th. Dreyer. A book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this work traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Traditions in World Cinema

Introduction

1. Enlightenment and Utility: Informational Film as Useful Cinema

2. We are a Little Land: Informational Film and Small-nation Cinema

3. Mapping Messiness: The Informational Film Archive and Actor- Network Theory

4. The Film World’s Cooperative Store: Institutions and Films of the 1930s and 1940s

5. A Film-progressive Nation: The Social Denmark Series and the British Documentary Movement

6. Somethin’ about Scandinavia: Danish Shorts on the Post-war International Scene

7. Citizens of the Future: Informational Film and the Welfare State

8. A Free Hand: The Art Film versus the Art of Documentary

9. Symphony of a Short Film: A City Called Copenhagen

Conclusion

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-2414-7

1-4744-4471-7

1-4744-2415-5

OCLC:

1312727442