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The Humphrey Jennings Film Reader
Humphrey Jennings
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Description for The Humphrey Jennings Film Reader
Hardcover. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper . First edition
Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950) has long been recognised as one of Britain's greatest film directors. His studies of national life, and particularly his three wartime films "Listen to Britain", "Fires Were Started" and "A Diary for Timothy", invaluable documents of their times, remain among the highest achievements of world cinema - humane, innovative and poetic. Jennings's films are rich due to the drama of subject matter and the range of passions and skills he brought to his work. He was a gifted painter, a key member of the Surrealist movement; a poet and literary critic; a founder of the domestic anthropological ... Read more
Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950) has long been recognised as one of Britain's greatest film directors. His studies of national life, and particularly his three wartime films "Listen to Britain", "Fires Were Started" and "A Diary for Timothy", invaluable documents of their times, remain among the highest achievements of world cinema - humane, innovative and poetic. Jennings's films are rich due to the drama of subject matter and the range of passions and skills he brought to his work. He was a gifted painter, a key member of the Surrealist movement; a poet and literary critic; a founder of the domestic anthropological ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857540451
SKU
KEX0303302
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Ref
99-1
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