The Story of British Propaganda Film

Scott Anthony (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2024
BFI Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-83902-139-8 (ISBN)

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‘All art is propaganda,’ wrote George Orwell, ‘but not all propaganda is art.’ Moving from World War I to the ‘War on Terror’ and beyond, The Story of British Propaganda Film shows how the emergence of film as a global media phenomenon reshaped practices of propaganda, while new practices of propaganda in turn reshaped the use of the moving image. It explores classic examples of cinematic propaganda such as The Battle of the Somme (1916), Listen to Britain (1942) and Animal Farm (1954) alongside little-known newsreels, ‘telemagazines’ and digital media initiatives, in the process challenging our understanding of propaganda itself, and its many diverse manifestations.

Richly illustrated with unique material from the BFI National Archive, the book shows how central propaganda is to the development of British film, and how it has filtered our understanding of modern British history, from narratives of decolonisation to the celebration of pop culture and the meanings of the postwar consensus. In a contemporary moment so preoccupied with misinformation, malinformation and disinformation, Scott Anthony explains why the response to the ubiquity of the propaganda film has often turned out to be the production of ever more propaganda.

Scott Anthony is Deputy Head of Research at the UK Science Museum Group. His books include Night Mail (BFI Film Classics, 2007), Public Relations and the Making of Modern Britain (Manchester University Press, 2012) and the co-edited volume The Projection of Britain: A History of the GPO Film Unit (BFI, 2012). His novel Changi was published by Penguin and he has written for the BBC, The Guardian, The Times, The Critic, Tribune, and the LRB Blog among many others.

Editors’ Introduction
Introduction: The Three Ages of the Propaganda Film
1: Propaganda Film and the Interwar Avant-Garde
- Close-up: So This is Britain
2: Propaganda Film and the Second World War
3: Propaganda Film and Colonial Development
- Close-up: British Council Films
4: Propaganda Film and Postwar Propaganda
- Close-up: The Information Research Department
- Montage: Biographies of a New Britain
- Close-up: London Line
5: Propaganda Film at the World Exhibitions
- Close-up: Propaganda for the Audiovisual World
6: Propaganda Film and the Monarchy
- Close-up: Education and the Propaganda Film
7: Propaganda Film and the Contemporary State
- Montage: Economic Propaganda
8: British Cinema in the Era of Total Propaganda
- Close-up: James Bond and the Secret Intelligence Film
9: The Propaganda Film and Humanitarian War
Conclusion
Recommended Reading
A Propaganda Playlist

Erscheinungsdatum	24.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	British Screen Stories
Zusatzinfo	100 colour illus
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-83902-139-X / 183902139X
ISBN-13	978-1-83902-139-8 / 9781839021398
Zustand	Neuware