Author: EVANS, GARY
Title: John Grierson and the National Film Board: The Politics of Wartime Propaganda
Description: Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0802025196. 329 pages. Index. Referrences. List of primary sources. Reproductions of black and white photos. "John Grierson, documentary film pioneer and founder of the National Film Board of Canada was a self-proclaimed propagandist who offered himself to Canada in the Second World War and won a place as director of Canada's official propaganda machine... But after the crisis had passed, Grierson and his idealistic associates ran up against the emerging pragmatic and functional policy approach of Mackenzie King's government." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Usual library markings. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; John Grierson and the National Film Board: The Politics of Wartime Propaganda World War 1939-1945 Moving Pictures in Propaganda Documentary NFB Wartime Mackenzie King Igor Gouzenko Spy Espionage Soviet. Good in Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0802025196 : Canadian History Covert Operations