C Claire Thomson

Broschiertes Buch

Short Films from a Small Nation

Danish Informational Cinema 1935-1965

Beschreibung

Traditions in World Cinema Series edited by Linda Badley and R. Barton Palmer Short Films from a Small Nation: Danish Informational Cinema 1935-1965 By C. Claire Thomson 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 inter-war 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. C. Claire Thomson is a Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Film at University College London

Autor

Dr C. Claire Thomson is Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Film at University College, London. She has published widely on Danish cinema, literature and culture, especially Carl Th. Dreyer, short films, multisensory cinema, and national identities. Her previous books include Thomas Vinterberg's Festen (University of Washington Press, 2013) and Northern Constellations: New Readings in Nordic Cinema (Norvik Press, 2006). She is an editor of the journals Scandinavica and Kosmorama.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9781474452274
• ISBN-10: 1474452272
• Artikelnr.: 57493173