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Scott Birdwise - Humphrey Jennings, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Humphrey Jennings

Imaginative Materialism and Everyday Life

Av Scott Birdwise

1240 kr

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Situating Jennings as a Surrealist, documentarian and chronicler of British history, it reframes his work as a critical engagement with questions of sovereignty, collectivity and historical memory.By examining his wartime documentaries alongside his Surrealist writings and experiments, his involvement with the British social research group Mass-Observation, and his poetic-historical compilation Pandaemonium, the book traces how Jennings’s imaginative attention to the matter and materials of everyday life transforms ordinary objects, gestures, spaces and sounds into forms that both register and resist the rationalizing and destructive forces of modernity. Jennings’s work emerges as at once poetic and materialist, revealing the energies, contradictions and possibilities embedded within collective experience.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-11-30
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 258
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781399563970
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Scott Birdwise is an Instructor at OCAD University. He has published articles and book chapters in various journals and edited collections, including the Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies, Arts, Animation Studies 2.0, The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (2015), Cinematic Ecosystems: Screen Encounters with More-than-Humans in the Era of Environmental Crisis (2026), and Cinemas of Global Solidarity (2026). He is also a founding member of Spiral Conference.

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Poet, painter, historian and filmmaker, Humphrey Jennings was a magus and a magpie who imaginatively rendered Britain in all its oddness and ordinariness. In this brilliantly written and forensically researched book, Scott Birdwise has given us a Jennings truly fit for the twenty-first century.

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