Short Films from a Small Nation

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Short Films from a Small Nation is written by C. Claire Thomson and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474424147 (ISBN 10) and 9781474424141 (ISBN 13).

For three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned directors like Carl Th. Dreyer. The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s. Examining the life cycle of a representative selection of films, and discussing their preservation and mediation in the digital age, this book presents a detailed case study of how informational cinema is shaped by, and indeed shapes, its cultural, political and technological contexts.