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Zusatztext A superb study of the GPO film unit as well as the various contributors to the film...informative and entertaining in equal measure… Informationen zum Autor SCOTT ANTHONY is a journalist and historian based at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His books include Night Mail (BFI, 2007), Public Relations and the Making of Modern Britain (MUP, 2012) and the co-edited volume The Projection of Britain: A History of the GPO Film Unit (BFI, 2012). He has worked as a journalist for Future Publishing, The Guardian and The Times and has worked as a freelancer for a wide range of media organisations in the UK, North America and Asia, including the BBC, ITV, The New Statesman, The Tablet, The Jewish Chronicle and the LRB Blog. Klappentext Night Mail (1936) is one of the best-loved and best-known films in the canon of British documentary cinema. Bringing together the creative talents of Harry Watt! Basil Wright! W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten! the film gave John Grierson's documentary school its first popular success. Its collectivist politics and its peculiarly modest brand of modernism is as redolent of the inter-war age as Agatha Christie! Penguin Books or The Shell Guides. But it was also a corporate promo! part of a publicity campaign initiated by Clement Attlee to stave off Post Office part-privatisation and to improve the morale of postal workers. Scott Anthony's study provides a lively appreciation of this vivid! witty and often just plain eccentric masterpiece. In doing so he uncovers the remarkable stories of civic-minded idealism! creative intrigue and political trickery that underpin this classic documentary. Zusammenfassung Night Mail (1936) is one of the best-loved and best-known films in the canon of British documentary cinema. Bringing together the creative talents of Harry Watt, Basil Wright, W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten, the film gave John Grierson's documentary school its first popular success. Its collectivist politics and its peculiarly modest brand of modernism is as redolent of the inter-war age as Agatha Christie, Penguin Books or The Shell Guides. But it was also a corporate promo, part of a publicity campaign initiated by Clement Attlee to stave off Post Office part-privatisation and to improve the morale of postal workers. Scott Anthony's study provides a lively appreciation of this vivid, witty and often just plain eccentric masterpiece. In doing so he uncovers the remarkable stories of civic-minded idealism, creative intrigue and political trickery that underpin this classic documentary....
