Short Films from a Small Nation

Danish Informational Cinema 1935-1965

• Author(s): C. Claire Thomson,
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Pages: 223
• ISBN_10: 1474424155
  ISBN_13: 9781474424158
  
• Language: en

Description:... Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Traditions in World Cinema -- Introduction -- 1. Enlightenment and Utility: Informational Film as Useful Cinema -- 2. We are a Little Land: Informational Film and Small-nation Cinema -- 3. Mapping Messiness: The Informational Film Archive and Actor-Network Theory -- 4. The Film World's Cooperative Store: Institutions and Films of the 1930s and 1940s -- 5. A Film-progressive Nation: The Social Denmark Series and the British Documentary Movement -- 6. Somethin' about Scandinavia: Danish Shorts on the Post-war International Scene -- 7. Citizens of the Future: Informational Film and the Welfare State -- 8. A Free Hand: The Art Film versus the Art of Documentary -- 9. Symphony of a Short Film: A City Called Copenhagen -- Conclusion -- References -- Index