The Appreciation of Film The Postwar Film Society Movement and Film Culture in Britain |
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| Author:
| MacDonald, Richard Lowell |
| Series title: | Exeter Studies in Film History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-85989-989-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2019 |
| Publisher: | University of Exeter Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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This book offers the first full account of the film society movement in Britain and its contribution to post-World War Two film culture. It brings to life a lost history of alternative film exhibition and challenges the general assumption that the study of film began with university courses on 'Film Studies'.
This book offers the first full account of the film society movement in Britain and its contribution to post-World War Two film culture. It brings to life a lost history of alternative film exhibition and challenges the general assumption that the study of film began with university courses on 'Film Studies'.