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A dramatistic analysis of John Grierson's rhetoric in the British Documentary Film Movement, 1929-1939.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A dramatistic analysis of John Grierson's rhetoric in the British Documentary Film Movement, 1929-1939./
Author:	Campbell, Andrew Steven.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1989,
Description:	330 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 51-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International51-07A.
Subject:	Rhetoric. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9001779
ISBN:	9798641860374

A dramatistic analysis of John Grierson's rhetoric in the British Documentary Film Movement, 1929-1939.
Campbell, Andrew Steven.

A dramatistic analysis of John Grierson's rhetoric in the British Documentary Film Movement, 1929-1939. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1989 - 330 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 51-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 1989.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Is the British Documentary Film Movement just an artistic movement, or is it also a social movement? Kenneth Burke's notion of symbolic action as educational, rhetorical, artistic, and ethical enables this dissertation to view John Grierson's documentary film movement as both an artistic and a social movement. This study focuses in upon the rhetoric Grierson used to begin and maintain a school for a new kind of public-servant-cinema. Grierson's symbolic actions as writer and lecturer are compared with his symbolic actions as director and producer. Does Grierson's written (spoken) rhetoric find fulfillment in the rhetoric of those documentary films created under his leadership in the BDFM? This is the central concern which organizes this dissertation. Following Kenneth Burke's advice to the critic, this dissertation uses everything available to make a dramatistic analysis of written texts found in the John Grierson Archive at the University of Stirling, Scotland, and filmic texts found in the Film Archive at the British Film Institute, London. A dramatistic approach to the clusters of terms in Grierson's articles, letters, unpublished manuscripts, memos, film criticism and a dramatistic approach to the clusters of filmic images in Grierson's Drifters (1929) and another twenty-four documentaries made during the BDFM provides the raw material for a comparative analysis of Grierson's written and filmic symbolic action. Burke's dramatism is synthesized into a method of study for both verbal terms and filmic images. The consistent use of this Burkean method enables a critical study of John Grierson's rhetoric as theorist and practitioner of documentary film. Grierson sought to establish a new kind of cinema which would redeem the film medium and resurrect the common laborer. In his written (spoken) rhetoric, Grierson tried to establish these values for documentary film, and in his filmic rhetoric he tried to influence social change.

ISBN: 9798641860374Subjects--Topical Terms:

516647
Rhetoric.
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Documentary

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