The Appreciation of Film (EPUB) von Richard Lowell MacDonald

This book offers the first full account of the film society movement in Britain and its contribution to post-World War Two film culture. It brings to life a lost history of alternative film exhibition and challenges the general assumption that the study of film began with university courses on ‘Film Studies’.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Enthusiasm and Civic Duty: The Emergence of the Film Society Movement
2 The Postwar Transformation of the Film Society Movement
3 Popularising Film Appreciation: Roger Manvell’s Film
4 The British Film Institute, the Film Archive and Film Society Programming
5 Making the World Our Home: Affirmative Internationalism and Film Societies
6 Film Society Criticism, Middlebrow Taste and New Cinemas
7 Film Societies, Universities and the Emergence of Film Studies
Conclusion: What Was Film Appreciation?
Notes
Bibliography
Index