Humphrey Jennings Film Reader

by Humphrey Jennings, Kevin Jackson (Editor)

This anthology of the letters, articles, scripts, and radio talks composed by famous British filmmaker Humphrey Jennings offers readers a window into the life and times of this most idiosyncratic of creative talents who gained national renown by documenting the everyday heroism of ordinary British citizens during and after World War II.

320 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2005

About the author

Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organisation. Jennings was described by film critic and director Lindsay Anderson in 1954 as "the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced."

Reviews

[M · Rating 4 out of 5]

I only had a very vague idea of who Jennings was before reading this, but his work was compelling to the point where I read all 300 pages in one day. A dazzling figure, extremely intelligent and extremely unpretentious (in both his views and language), Jennings seems to have tried pretty much every form of art available to him, and to have performed superbly regardless of medium.