A New History of British Documentary

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • James Chapman

   Pages 1-17

3. Documentary Before Grierson

   • James Chapman

   Pages 18-40

4. Documentary in the 1930s

   • James Chapman

   Pages 41-89

5. Documentary at War

   • James Chapman

   Pages 90-122

6. Post-War Documentary

   • James Chapman

   Pages 123-171

7. Television and Documentary

   • James Chapman

   Pages 172-215

8. Alternative and Oppositional Documentary

   • James Chapman

   Pages 216-258

9. Conclusion

   • James Chapman

   Pages 259-265

10. Back Matter

    Pages 266-324

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A New History of British Documentary is the first comprehensive overview of documentary production in Britain from early film to the present day. It covers both the film and television industries and demonstrates how documentary practice has adapted to changing institutional and ideological contexts.

• British cinema
• British television
• documentary
• documentary film
• documentary movement
• history
• EMB
• GPO
• MOI
• COI
• BBC
• bibliography
• Britain
• film
• Great Britain
• history of literature
• knowledge
• present
• television

“Chapman describes this volume as both ‘a partially researched textbook’ and ‘an attempt to map the field’. … as a convenient one-stop-shop source of reliable information and thoughtful comment on a huge subject it will prove useful for some years to come. … it will endure further as an equally handy summary of the state of received knowledge at the time of its writing.” (Patrick Russell, Reviews in History, history.ac.uk, June, 2016)

• University of Leicester, UK

  James Chapman

James Chapman is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester, UK, and editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. His previous work includes The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-1945 (1998), Licence To Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films (1999) and Past and Present: National Identity and the British Historical Film (2005). He is also co-editor (with Mark Glancy and Sue Harper) of The New Film History: Sources, Methods, Approaches.

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