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Overview'The Humphrey Jennings Film reader' tells the story of his brief, varied life in his own words, using many previously unpublished letters, treatments and screen-plays. it reprints all of his unpublished critical writings on literature, painting and other subjects (most of them unavailable in book form since the 1930s), the texts of his radio broadcasts for the BBC, and a selection of his poems. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Humphrey Jennings , Kevin JacksonPublisher: Carcanet Press Ltd Imprint: Fyfield Books Edition: 3rd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9781857547481ISBN 10: 1857547489 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 26 August 2004 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsWho is Humphrey Jennings? . . . One of Britain s greatest directors . . . if he hadn t died at 43 he would now be Sir Humphrey Jennings and Britain would have a film industry. Read this anthology of his letters, articles, scripts, and radio talks and find out what you ve missed. GQ magazine Who is Humphrey Jennings? . . . One of Britain's greatest directors . . . if he hadn't died at 43 he would now be Sir Humphrey Jennings and Britain would have a film industry. Read this anthology of his letters, articles, scripts, and radio talks and find out what you've missed. -- GQ magazine Who is Humphrey Jennings? . . . One of Britain s greatest directors . . . if he hadn t died at 43 he would now be Sir Humphrey Jennings and Britain would have a film industry. Read this anthology of his letters, articles, scripts, and radio talks and find out what you ve missed. GQ magazine Letters, scripts, and reviews illuminate Jennings ideas and enthusiasms: the elements of poetry, painting, music, realism, and surrealism, so brilliantly combined in his wartime documentaries. William Feaver, Observer """Who is Humphrey Jennings? . . . One of Britain's greatest directors . . . if he hadn't died at 43 he would now be Sir Humphrey Jennings and Britain would have a film industry. Read this anthology of his letters, articles, scripts, and radio talks and find out what you've missed."" --""GQ"" magazine ""Letters, scripts, and reviews illuminate Jennings ideas and enthusiasms: the elements of poetry, painting, music, realism, and surrealism, so brilliantly combined in his wartime documentaries."" William Feaver, Observer"" ""Who is Humphrey Jennings? . . . One of Britain s greatest directors . . . if he hadn t died at 43 he would now be Sir Humphrey Jennings and Britain would have a film industry. Read this anthology of his letters, articles, scripts, and radio talks and find out what you ve missed."" GQ magazine""" Who is Humphrey Jennings? . . . One of Britain's greatest directors . . . if he hadn't died at 43 he would now be Sir Humphrey Jennings and Britain would have a film industry. Read this anthology of his letters, articles, scripts, and radio talks and find out what you've missed. -- GQ magazine Author InformationHumphrey Jennings was an award-winning wartime film director who was also a poet, literary critic and a dab hand at painting. he was also the founder of the domestic anthropological movement of Mass Observation and he assembled an anthology of writings about the machine age, 'Pandaemonium'. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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