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Night Mail
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Paperback. Night Mail (1936) is one of the best-loved films in the canon of British documentary cinema.This study provides a lively appreciation of this vivid, witty and often just plain eccentric masterpiece. In doing so he uncovers the stories of civic-minded idealism, creative intrigue and political trickery that underpin this classic film." Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 117 x 7. Weight in Grams: 176. Series: BFI Film Classics. 96 pages, colour illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: APF. Dimension: 189 x 117 x 7. Weight: 176.
Night Mail (1936) is one of the best-loved and best-known films in the canon of British documentary cinema. Bringing together the creative talents of Harry Watt, Basil Wright, W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten, the film gave John Grierson's documentary school its first popular success. Its collectivist politics and its peculiarly modest brand of modernism is as redolent of the inter-war age as Agatha Christie, Penguin Books or The Shell Guides. But it was also a corporate promo, part of a publicity campaign initiated by Clement Attlee to stave off Post Office part-privatisation and to improve the morale of ... Read more
Night Mail (1936) is one of the best-loved and best-known films in the canon of British documentary cinema. Bringing together the creative talents of Harry Watt, Basil Wright, W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten, the film gave John Grierson's documentary school its first popular success. Its collectivist politics and its peculiarly modest brand of modernism is as redolent of the inter-war age as Agatha Christie, Penguin Books or The Shell Guides. But it was also a corporate promo, part of a publicity campaign initiated by Clement Attlee to stave off Post Office part-privatisation and to improve the morale of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844572298
SKU
V9781844572298
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Reviews for Night Mail
'A superb study of the GPO film unit as well as the various contributors to the film...informative and entertaining in equal measure...' - Howard Maxford, Film Review