Alternative Film Culture in Interwar Britain (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University Of Exeter Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Exeter Studies in Film History
Release date:	July 2008
First published:	September 2008
Authors:	Jamie Sexton
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-85989-810-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
LSN:	0-85989-810-5
Barcode:	9780859898102

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