Alternative Film Culture In Interwar Britain - Sexton, Jamie (Exeter University Press, 2014)
Front Cover; Half Title; Exeter Studies in Film History; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: From Avant-Garde Film to Alternative Film Culture; Chapter 1: The Network of Alternative Film Culture; Chapter 2: Deconstruction, Burlesque and Parody; Chapter 3: Drifters and the Emergence of an Alternative British Cinema; Chapter 4: Alternative Film Culture in the Shadow of Sound; Chapter 5: Montage, Machinery and Sound; Chapter 6: Mechanization and Abstraction; Chapter 7: Borderline: Subjectivity and Experimentation; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography
FilmographyIndex; Back Cover
In this new book, Jamie Sexton looks at the rise of avant-garde and experimental filmmaking in Britain between the wars. The book provides a detailed view of how modernist and anti-mainstream currents emerged in the film industry. Sexton combines history with analysis of the films themselves, and looks at the operations of a key contemporary institution, the original Film Society. This is the first book-length study of alternative film culture to concentrate specifically on inter-war Britain
Keywords: 1900 - 1999; Geschichte 1900-2000; Geschichte 1918-1939; Culture in motion pictures; English literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Great Britain / Intellectual life / 20th century; Motion pictures / Great Britain / History / 20th century; Experimental films; Motion picture industry; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; PERFORMING ARTS / Reference; Film; Geschichte; Experimental films -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Motion picture industry -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Experimentalfilm; Europa; Großbritannien