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The Documentary Film MovementAn Anthology

Edited by Ian Aitken

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About this book

It includes generous selections from the work of John Grierson as well as writings by Paul Rotha, Humphrey Jennings, Alberto Cavalcanti and Basil Wright. Each section is accompanied by short commentaries. A full introduction examines the historical development of the documentary film movement between 1927 and 1950, the types of films made by the movement, its relationship to other British film genres and to contemporary debates on British national cinema. An accessible, comprehensive and illuminating source book for courses on Documentary Film and the History of British Cinema.

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The texts collected here gives a vivid sense of the intellectual orientations, motivations, relationships between, and achievements of, the featured individuals. British documentary scholars will have encountered most of his material before ... Aitken's anthology ... is the first recent publication to pisition itself as an authoriitative collection of source material on the movement as a whole.
A useful collection of material
About the author

Ian Aitken

Ian Aitken was a chair professor, and is now an Emeritus Professor, affiliated to Hong Kong Baptist University. His areas of expertise lie in British documentary film studies, the British official film in South-East Asia, and theories of cinematic realism. His most recent book publications include World, Time Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2026), Cinematic Realism (2020), The Major Realist Film Theorists (ed.), The British Official Film in South-East Asia (2016), and The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia (2016).