‘Of course it is idealised’
Lindsay Anderson's Every Day Except Christmas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21785058 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Cornelius, Douglas Rhein (0000-0003-1421-9065) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-86 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of British Cinema and Television (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-4521 • E-ISSN: 1755-1714 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/jbctv.2022.0604 |
| OpenAlex | W4200276585 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This article examines Lindsay Anderson's 1957 documentary, Every Day Except Christmas, as a distinct product of British post-war culture that also contributed significantly to the development of Anderson's own film aesthetic. It also sets Every Day Except Christmas against the background of Anderson's influential documentary made a year earlier, O Dreamland. The article combines formal and contextual analysis of Christmas with a review of contemporary assessments of the film as well as Anderson's own comments on it
Art · Art history · Documentary film · Performance art · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Political and Economic history of UK and US
| Highly cited | No |
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