A Social Poetics of Documentary: Grierson and the Scandinavian Documentary Tradition

Abstract

This article deals with the influence of John Grierson on the development of the Scandinavian documentary film and television movement. Grierson's poetic for a new documentary had a strong influence on the Scandinavian documentary movement from the 1930s and on. The combination of a documentary format that combined a new aesthetic form with a social vision was developed in the early British class society but pointed towards a more democratic wellfare society. Key Scandinavian figures and institutions in this development of a modern, documentary movement is analysed.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelThe Grierson Effect : Tracing Documentary's International Movement
RedaktørerZoë Druick, Deane Williams
Antal sider14
UdgivelsesstedLondon
ForlagPalgrave Macmillan
Publikationsdato1 jan. 2014
Sider79-92
Kapitel5
ISBN (Trykt)9781844575404, 9781844575398
StatusUdgivet - 1 jan. 2014
NavnCultural Histories of Cinema Series

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