Humphrey Jennings Film Reader
by Jennings, Humphrey; Jackson, KevinFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-04-01
Publisher(s): Carcanet Press Ltd.
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Summary
This anthology of the letters, articles, scripts, and radio talks composed by famous British filmmaker Humphrey Jennings offers readers a window into the life and times of this most idiosyncratic of creative talents who gained national renown by documenting the everyday heroism of ordinary British citizens during and after World War II.
Author Biography
Humphrey Jennings was a British filmmaker who gained national renown by documenting the everyday heroism of ordinary British citizens during and after world war II. His most famous films are Britain Can Take It, A Diary for Timothy, and Listen to Britain. Kevin Jackson is the author of Invisible Forms, The Language of Cinema, and Letters of Introduction.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Film-making : treatments, scripts and letters 1934-1950 | |
| Words for battle | p. 17 |
| National gallery | p. 24 |
| Listen to Britain | p. 33 |
| Fires were started | p. 38 |
| Filming The silent village | p. 61 |
| Lili Marlene | p. 85 |
| A diary for Timothy | p. 96 |
| Filming A defeated people | p. 100 |
| Dim little island | p. 112 |
| Working sketches of an orchestra | p. 118 |
| Family portrait | p. 162 |
| Critical writings | |
| Design and the theatre | p. 181 |
| Odd thoughts at the Fitzwilliam | p. 184 |
| Notes on Marvell 'to his coy mistress' | p. 186 |
| Rock-painting and La Jeune Peinture | p. 191 |
| A reconsideration of Herrick | p. 195 |
| The theatre to-day | p. 202 |
| 'Colour won't stand dignity' | p. 218 |
| 'Surrealism' | p. 219 |
| 'Do not lean out of the window!' | p. 221 |
| In Magritte's paintings ... | p. 225 |
| The iron horse | p. 226 |
| A determination not to dream | p. 229 |
| Who does that remind you of? | p. 230 |
| The anatomy of the horse | p. 231 |
| Colorado Claro : thoughts on the 'cleaned pictures' | p. 232 |
| The English | p. 236 |
| Paule Vezelay | p. 243 |
| Selected broadcasts | |
| Plagiarism in poetry | p. 247 |
| The disappearance of ghosts | p. 251 |
| The modern poet and the public | p. 255 |
| The poet and the public in the past | p. 261 |
| Understanding modern poetry | p. 266 |
| The poet laureateship | p. 271 |
| Poetry and national life | p. 276 |
| Science review no. 10 : James Nasmyth | p. 283 |
| 'Pourquoij'aime la France' | p. 285 |
| Selected poems | |
| Reports (1934-1936) | p. 289 |
| Three reports (1935-1936) | p. 290 |
| Report on the Industrial Revolution (1937) | p. 292 |
| The boyhood of Byron (1936-1938) | p. 292 |
| Prose poem ('as the sun') (1937) | p. 293 |
| Two American poems (1938) | p. 294 |
| The procession | p. 294 |
| 'Were you disappointed in the first view of Niagara?' | p. 295 |
| Autumn 1939 | p. 295 |
| Summer 1940 | p. 295 |
| A picture in the Victoria and Albert Museum (1940) | p. 296 |
| I see London (1941) | p. 296 |
| War and childhood (1943) | p. 298 |
| As the sirens 1944 (1944-1947) | p. 298 |
| Wales in snow (1948) | p. 299 |
| The plough (1948) | p. 299 |
| As I look (1949) | p. 300 |
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