Short Films from a Small Nation: Danish Informational Cinema 1935-1965

ISBN-13: 9781474424134 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

C. Claire Thomson

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One - Enlightenment and utility: Informational film as useful cinema
Chapter Two - ‘We are a little land’: Informational film and small-nation cinema
Chapter Three - Mapping Messiness: The informational film archive & Actor-Network Theory
Chapter Four - ‘The film world’s cooperative store’: Institutions and films of the 1930s and 1940s
Chapter Five - ‘A film-progressive nation’: The Social Denmark series and the British documentary movement
Chapter Six - ‘Somethin’ about Scandinavia’: Danish shorts on the post-war international scene
Chapter Seven - ‘Citizens of the Future’: Informational film and the welfare state
Chapter Eight - ‘A free hand’: The art film versus the art of documentary
Chapter Nine - Symphony of a short film: A City Called Copenhagen
Conclusion
References