This feature is from Bartek Dziadosz, a filmmaker and manager of the Derek Jarman Lab. This post first appeared as a ‘scrapbook’ feature in May 2020, for Birkbeck Arts Weeks. First, a few words about the book: Vance Packard’s The Hidden Persuaders (1957) was the first major critical assessment of the advertising industry’s use of motivational research.…
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This feature is from Lily Ford, a historian and long-time producer at the Derek Jarman Lab. Lily did her PhD in Birkbeck’s History of Art department and published an illustrated history of aviation, Taking to the Air, with British Library Publishing in 2018. She’s currently researching a series of women from behind the scenes of…
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A Selected Bibliography of Resources on the Essay Film The essay film form lies between fiction and documentary genres. With etymological roots in the French essai [to try], the genre might be most productively conceptualised, much like its literary counterpart, as an exploration of an intellectual question or problem, articulated from the perspective of a…
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