News on the march

• Autores: Kieron Corless
• Localización: Sight & sound, ISSN 0037-4806, Vol. 23, Nº 2, 2013, págs. 74-76
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Up until the 1970s, the newsreel, with its stentorian tone and top-down sensibility, had become shorthand for the patronising, patrician voice of the establishment. Yet as a new wave of 21st-century protest movements takes shape, filmmakers around the world are finding the newareel format to be the perfect vehicle for bottomúp documentation and reportage in the digital era. We hear from three directors who have each come to the form independently and, overleaf, revisit the story of 20th-century British newsreels