Humphrey Jennings Film Reader by Humphrey Jennings

Humphrey Jennings Film Reader by Humphrey Jennings

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Summary

This work provides a window into the life and work of the great British director, Humphrey Jennings.

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Humphrey Jennings Film Reader by Humphrey Jennings

'The Humphrey Jennings Film reader' tells the story of his brief, varied life in his own words, using many previously unpublished letters, treatments and screen-plays. it reprints all of his unpublished critical writings on literature, painting and other subjects (most of them unavailable in book form since the 1930s), the texts of his radio broadcasts for the BBC, and a selection of his poems.
Humphrey Jennings was an award-winning wartime film director who was also a poet, literary critic and a dab hand at painting. he was also the founder of the domestic anthropological movement of Mass Observation and he assembled an anthology of writings about the machine age, 'Pandaemonium'.
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ISBN 13 9781857547481
ISBN 10 1857547489
Title Humphrey Jennings Film Reader
Author Humphrey Jennings
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Year published 2004-08-26
Number of pages 312
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.