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15 octobre 2019

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EAN13

9781786834898

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

3 Mo

In a uniquely dualistic creative career spanning five decades, John Ormond made major contributions to both English-language poetry and documentary filmmaking. Born in Swansea, he learned to ‘think in terms of pictures’ while working as a journalist in London, where he secured a job at the celebrated photojournalist magazine Picture Post. Employed later by the BBC in Cardiff during the early days of television, Ormond went on to become a pioneer in documentary film. This book is the first in-depth examination of the fascinating correspondences between Ormond’s twin creative channels; viewing his work against the backdrop of a changing Wales, it constitutes an important case study in the history of documentary filmmaking, in the history of British television, and in the cultural history of Wales.

Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: ‘Welsh things to broadcast about’
2. ‘Ormond, you’re a poet!’: Poetry and the Personal Documentary
3. Screening Culture
4. Brokering History
5. Popularising Ethnography
6. Conclusion: The ‘Organic Mosaic’
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

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Publié par

University of Wales Press

Date de parution

15 octobre 2019

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781786834898

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

3 Mo

John Ormond’s Organic Mosaic

WRITING WALES IN ENGLISH

CREWseries of Critical and Scholarly Studies General Editors: Kirsti Bohata and Daniel G. Williams (CREW, Swansea University)

ThisCREWseries is dedicated to Emyr Humphreys, a major ﬁgure in the literary culture of modern Wales, a founding patron of theCentre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales. Grateful thanks are due to the late Richard Dynevor for making this series possible.

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John Ormond’s Organic Mosaic

Poetry, Documentary, Nation

WRITING WALES IN ENGLISH

KIERON SMITH

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2019

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Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations

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Introduction: ‘Welsh things to broadcast about’

‘Ormond, you’re a poet!’: Poetry and the Personal Documentary

Screening Culture

Brokering History

Popularising Ethnography

Conclusion: The ‘Organic Mosaic’

Notes Filmography Bibliography Index

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Series EDiTOrs’ Preface

The aim of this series, since its founding in 2004 by Professor M. Wynn Thomas, is to publish scholarly and critical work by established specialists and younger scholars that reﬂects the richness and var iety of the Englishlanguage literature of modern Wales. The studies published so far have amply demonstrated that concepts, models and discourses current in the best contemporary studies can illuminate aspects of Welsh culture, and have also foregrounded the potential of the Welsh example to draw attention to themes that are often neglected or marginalised in anglophone cultural studies. The series deﬁnes and explores that which distinguishes Wales’s anglophone literature, challenges critics to develop methods and approaches adequate to the task of interpreting Welsh culture, and invites its readers to locate the process of writing Wales in English within com parative and transnational contexts.

Professor Kirsti Bohata and Professor Daniel G. Williams Founding Editor: Professor M. Wynn Thomas (2004–15)

CREW (Centre for Research into the EnglishLiterature and Language of Wales) Swansea University

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