Night Mail by Na Na

Night Mail by Na Na

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 postal workers. Scott Anthony's study provides a lively appreciation of this vivid, witty and often just plain eccentric masterpiece. In doing so he uncovers the remarkable stories of civic-minded idealism, creative intrigue and political trickery that underpin this classic documentary.

'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

SCOTT ANTHONY

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ISBN 13	9781844572298
ISBN 10	1844572293
Titre	Night Mail
Auteur	Na Na
Série	Bfi Film Classics
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Année de publication	2007-09-17
Nombre de pages	96
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