Short Films From A Small Nation: Danish Informational Cinema 1935–1965 (Traditions In World Cinema) - 9781474424134

For three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned directors like Carl Th. Dreyer. The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s. Examining the life cycle of a representative selection of films, and discussing their preservation and mediation in the digital age, this book presents a detailed case study of how informational cinema is shaped by, and indeed shapes, its cultural, political and technological contexts.

• | Author: C. Claire Thomson
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Performing Arts
• | ISBN-10: 1474424139
• | ISBN-13: 9781474424134