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A new SOE circuit is formed near Lyon during World War II. In this story of courage and camaraderie young and often inexperienced recruits work to undermine the efforts of the occupying German army, sometimes paying the ultimate price.

The first collection to address the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Bazin and Georg Lukacs in one volume.

This book explores the major film theories and cinema movements within European cinema from the 1900s onwards.

The issue of cinematic realism is important because the issue of realism, of the relationship between representation and reality, is important. If some forms of representation are closer to reality - however defined - than others, then this may also be the case with forms of filmic representation. In this book, Ian Aitken links the issue of cinematic realism to important questions concerning human experience, analysing the close similarity bet...

For decades Ian Aitken has been thinking deeply about cinematic realism, working tirelessly to interrogate the fundamental premises and limitations of previous theories of representation and reality. This latest book presents the apogee of his thinking, revealing via a series of intense readings of Lukács and Kracauer the implicit philosophical assumptions, methods, and problems behind their theoretical systems.' Warren Buckland, Oxford Brooke...

Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions.

This book suggests ways forward for a new series of studies in cinematic realism, and for a new form of film theory based on realism, stressing the importance of the question of realism, both in film studies and in contemporary life. -- .

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This book suggests ways forward for a new series of studies in cinematic realism, and for a new form of film theory based on realism, stressing the importance of the question of realism, both in film studies and in contemporary life.

The first collection to address the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Bazin and Georg Lukacs in one volume.

With a particular emphasis on how documentary films address the historico-political dimension of their time, this book introduces students and scholars in Film Studies to this fascinating and largely unexplored cinematic tradition.

Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions.

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Students and lecturers in film studies -- .

Offers a comprehensive study of the lost genre of Hong Kong documentary film. This book introduces students and scholars in Film Studies to this unexplored cinematic tradition. It is based on original archival research.

This book explores the ways in which the British official film was used in Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong from 1945 to the 1970s. Aitken uncovers how the British official film, and British official information agencies, adapted to the epochal contexts of the Cold War and end of empire. In addition to an extensive introduction, which touches on a number of critical issues related to the post-war British official film, the book provide...

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

European Film Theory and Cinema explores the major film theories andmovements within European cinema since the early 1900s. An original and criticallyastute study, it considers film theory within the context of the intellectualclimate of the last two centuries. Ian Aitkin focuses particularly on the two majortraditions that dominate European film theory and cinema: the "intuitionistmodernist and realist" tradition and the "post-Saussurian" tra...