Sexton Alternative Film Culture in Interwar Britain

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-85989-897-3
Verlag: University of Exeter Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Web PDF

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In the first book-length study to concentrate specifically on Britain, Jamie Sexton examines the rise of avant-garde and experimental film-making between the wars.

The book provides a detailed view of how modernist and anti-mainstream currents emerged in the film industry in Britain.

Alternative Film Culture in Inter-War Britain is the first book-length study of a number of currents which opposed mainstream filmmaking and which championed film as an intellectual, modern art. It traces the growth of new approaches to film through exhibition and writing on cinema, and looks at how this cultural formation shaped certain areas of filmmaking. As such, it takes an interdisciplinary approach in which a study of independent filmmaking in this era is firmly placed within a cultural context, linking the ways in which films were presented, received and produced.This is the first in-depth look at 'alternative film culture' in Britain between the wars will excite many in the film, and film studies, worlds. It combines the history with analysis of the films themselves, and of their reception. It looks at the operations of a key contemporary institution, the original Film Society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sexton, Jamie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: From Avant-Garde Film to Alternative Film Culture

Chapter 1. The Network of Alternative Film Culture

Chapter 2. Deconstruction, Burlesque and Parody

Chapter 3. Drifters and the Emergence of an Alternative British Cinema

Chapter 4. Alternative Film Culture in the Shadow of Sound

Chapter 5. Montage, Machinery and Sound

Chapter 6. Mechanization and Abstraction

Chapter 7. Borderline: Subjectivity and Experimentation

Conclusion

Bibliography

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: From Avant-Garde Film to Alternative Film Culture

Chapter 1. The Network of Alternative Film Culture

Chapter 2. Deconstruction, Burlesque and Parody

Chapter 3. Drifters and the Emergence of an Alternative British Cinema

Chapter 4. Alternative Film Culture in the Shadow of Sound

Chapter 5. Montage, Machinery and Sound

Chapter 6. Mechanization and Abstraction

Chapter 7. Borderline: Subjectivity and Experimentation

Conclusion

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Jamie Sexton is Lecturer in Film Studies in Northumbria University. His other books include Cult Cinema: An Introduction (with Ernest Mathijs, forthcoming 2009); Experimental British Television (edited with Laura Mulvey, 2007); Music, Sound and Multimedia (edited, 2007).

Jamie Sexton is Lecturer in Film Studies in Northumbria University. His other books include Cult Cinema: An Introduction (with Ernest Mathijs, forthcoming 2009); Experimental British Television (edited with Laura Mulvey, 2007); Music, Sound and Multimedia (edited, 2007).