Short films from a small nation : Danish informational cinema, 1935-1965 /
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. The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danis...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Traditions in world cinema.
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| 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. The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the interwar period to the 1960s. Examining the life cycle of a representative selection of films, and discussing their preservation and mediation in the digital age, this book presents a detailed case study of how informational cinema is shaped by, and indeed shapes, its cultural, political and technological contexts. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-216) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474424134 1474424139 |