Short Films from a Small Nation: Danish Informational Cinema 1935-1965

By C. Claire Thomson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474452272
• ISBN13: 9781474452274
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"