Grierson Effect

Zoë Druick is Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is author of Projecting Canada and Allan King's A Married Couple, and co-editor of Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television and Cinephemera: Archives, Ephemeral Cinema and New Screen Histories in Canada. Deane Williams is Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies, Monash University, Australia. He is the author of Australian Post-War Documentary Films, co-author of Michael Winterbottom, co-editor of Australian Film Theory and Criticism, and editor of the journal Studies in Documentary Film.

• Acknowledgments.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction; Zoë Druick and Deane Williams.- 1. John Grierson and the United States; Stephen Charbonneau.- 2. John Grierson and Russian Cinema: an Uneasy Dialogue; Julia Vassilieva.- 3. To Play The Part That Was in Fact His/Her Own; Brian Winston.- 4. Translating Grierson: Japan; Abé Markus Nornes.- 5. A Social Poetics of Documentary: Grierson and the Scandinavian Documentary Tradition; Ib Bondebjerg.- 6. The Griersonian Influence and its Challenges: Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong (1939-73); Ian Aitken.- 7. Grierson in Canada; Zoë Druick.- 8. Imperial Relations with Polynesian Romantics: the John Grierson Effect in New Zealand; Simon Sigley.- 9. The Grierson Cinema: Australia; Deane Williams.- 10. John Grierson in India: The Films Division under the Influence?; Camille Deprez.- 11. Grierson in Ireland; Jerry White.- 12. White Fathers Hear Dark Voices?: John Grierson and British Colonial Africa at the End of Empire; Martin Stollery.- 13. Grierson, Afrikaner Nationalism and South Africa; Keyan G Tomaselli.- 14. Grierson and Latin America: Encounters, Dialogues and Legacies; Mariano Mestman and María Luisa Ortega.- Select Bibliography.- Appendix – John Grierson Biographical Timeline.- Index.

A fine undertaking...Plenty of intriguing material is excavated in this varied collection of essays