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I was a fireman [1943]
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Year: 2008 Publisher: S.l. : Film First,

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Also includes: Diary for Timothy [1945], Listen to Britain [1942]


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Humphrey Jennings : Film-Maker, Painter, Poet
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ISBN: 9781844578023 Year: 2014 Publisher: London : Palgrave MacMillan,

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Humphrey Jennings : le poète du cinéma britannique
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ISBN: 9782296068674 Year: 2008 Publisher: Paris : L'Harmattan,

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Les courts-métrages de Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950) lui ont valu le titre de "seul poète du cinéma britannique". Il a exercé sur l'école réaliste anglaise une grande influence. Il trouve ses inspirations dans l'histoire, la littérature et la peinture. Il fut le cofondateur du mouvement sociologique anglais Mass observation.

Humphrey Jennings : more than a maker of films
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ISBN: 0874512263 Year: 1982 Publisher: Hanover [N.H.] ; London Published for Clark University by [the] University Press of New England

So exotic, so homemade: surrealism, Englishness and documentary photography
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ISBN: 9780719073403 Year: 2007 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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Humphrey Jennings.
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ISBN: 1781701830 1847792685 9781847792686 9781781701836 9780719078552 0719078555 Year: 2010 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of representational approaches transcended accepted notions of wartime propaganda and revised the strict codes of British documentary film of the 1930's and 1940's. Poet, propagandist, surrealist and documentary film maker - Jennings' work embodies an outstanding mix of startling apprehension, personal expression and representational innovation. This book carefully examines and expertly explains the central components


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Humphrey Jennings and British documentary film : a re-assessment
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ISBN: 9780754667261 9781409427391 1409427390 075466726X 1283090430 9781283090438 131711938X 1317119371 9786613090430 9781315587653 9781317119364 9781317119371 1315587653 Year: 2011 Publisher: Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate,

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During a short career between 1939 and 1950, Humphrey Jennings produced a number of outstanding films documenting everyday life in Britain. In this new book, Philip Logan offers a thorough reassessment of Jennings's intellectual background and the factors that informed his life. Through an understanding of the historical context within which Jennings's films were produced and directed Logan suggests we can begin to much better understand the propaganda messages that inform them, and thus gain a fuller insight into the nature, character and purpose of the films he produced for the British war e

The finest years : British cinema of the 1940s.
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ISBN: 9781845114114 1845114116 Year: 2007 Publisher: London I.B. Tauris


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The projection of Britain : a history of the GPO.

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"This Reader provides a comprehensive resource guide to the films, filmmakers and social and cultural importance of the GPO Film Unit. In addition to original essays by leading film and cultural historians, the volume reprints rare archival material about the work of the Unit, as well as a GPO filmography and profiles of key figures"--

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