Humphrey Jennings by Marie-Louise Jennings

Humphrey Jennings by Marie-Louise Jennings

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Humphrey Jennings was one of Britain's greatest documentary film-makers. A member of the GPO Film Unit and director of canonical films such as Listen to Britain, he was also an acclaimed painter, photographer, poet and writer. This seminal collection of critical essays and archival material explores the life of Jennings and his many artistic works.

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Humphrey Jennings by Marie-Louise Jennings

Humphrey Jennings was one of Britain's greatest documentary film-makers, described by Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as 'the only real poet the British cinema has yet produced'. A member of the GPO Film Unit and director of wartime canonical classics such as Listen to Britain (1942) and A Diary for Timothy (1945), he was also an acclaimed writer, painter, photographer and poet. This seminal collection of critical essays, first published in 1982 and here reissued with a new introduction, traces Jennings's fascinating career in all its aspects with the aid of documents from the Jennings family archive. Situating Jennings's work in the world of his contemporaries, and illuminating the qualities by which his films are now recognised, Humphrey Jennings: Film-Maker, Painter, Poet explores the many insights and cultural contributions of this truly remarkable artist.
MARIE-LOUISE JENNINGS is a daughter of Humphrey Jennings, an historian of eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland and a Fellow of Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
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ISBN 13 9781844578016
ISBN 10 1844578011
Title Humphrey Jennings
Author Marie-Louise Jennings
Series Bfi Silver
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2014-11-25
Number of pages 136
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