STUDIO BASED SUBMISSIONS.........Page viii
PREFACE.........Page ix
- Becoming a Film Maker
Opportunities as a developing film maker generated by the book Building the Body BeautifulMaking Modus Operandi
What was achieved with Modus Operandi?
- The Collection Forms the Basis of a PhD Proposal
DECLARATION.........Page xiii
INTRODUCTION.........Page 1
- The Rise of the Physical Culture Movement
- Aims of the Thesis
01. POVERTY OF MEANS: The Visual Communication of Physical Culture.........Page 15
- Method of Delivery
- Visual ThemesMovement and the Still – Communicating Sequences of Human Movement
High Art and Low Art -The Classical Influences
Prudery and Exhibitionism - The Concealment of the Genitalia
Overall Design and Layout
- Tone and Nomenclature
- Selection of Case Studies
- Case Study 1: Design and Language Observations of the Book Building the Body Beautiful (1931)
Physicalities and Tone
Visual Characteristics of Images
Methods of Imparting Myths
What is Mrs Bagot Stack’s Exercise System?
How Effectively Does Editorial Design Communicate the Exercises to the Reader?
The Gramophone and ‘Calendar’ Set
How Effective are the ‘Calendars’?
What Do the Gramophone Records Contribute to the System?
- Case Study 2: Design and Language Observations of the Book My System (1930)Physicalities and Tone
Visual Characteristics of Images
Methods of Imparting Myths
What is Muller’s Exercise System?
How Effectively Does Editorial Design Communicate the Exercises to the Reader?
- Recurring Themes of Physical Culture Publications Identified after AnalysisThe Expert’s Traits
Frailty of Design and Editorial Consideration
Social and Cultural Influences
The ‘Quick-Fix’
02. THE LEADER & THE LED AND THE CULT OF DISPLAY:
Making the Documentary This is the League that Jane Joined.........Page 94
- Preliminary Researches
Discovering the League - Why did it Appeal as a Potential Project?
Why a Film?
Defining the Documentary Film
- Development as a Documentary Film MakerThe Issue of Authorial Control
Disciplines of Understanding Historical and Theoretical Structures
Analysis of Act of God (1980)
- Background Research for the Documentary
- Themes that Contextualise the League Theme 1: The Leader and the Led
Theme 2: The Individual and the Mass Display
- Production of the DocumentaryAvailable Printed Material
Available Film Material
Techniques of Interviewing
Structuring and Authoring the Documentary Elements
- My Relationship to the Film
03. FACTUAL FICTION: Making The Wilfred Blakeney Way.........Page 136
- The Filmic Approaches
- Why a Mock Documentary?
- Exploring the Inadvertent Elements of Comedy in the Physical Culture Material
- Low Art and High Art – The Physical Culture Movement as Stimulus
- Making the DocumentaryCreating the Protagonist
The Structure
Creating the Other Characters
The Style
- The Contribution of the Films to my Research
04. CONCLUSION:
Why was the Physical Culture Movement a Modernist Phenomenon?.........Page 153
05. GLOSSARY.........Page 161
06. BIBLIOGRAPHY.........Page 165
07. FILMOGRAPHY.........Page 169
08. APPENDICES.........Page 189
- Appendix 01..........Physical & Efficiency Book Collection Audit
- Appendix 02..........Categories of Documentary Film
- Appendix 03..........Interview Questions
- Appendix 04..........Film Scripts:
..........Building the Supermale
..........Bodies in Formation
..........Nighcraft
..........The Wilfred Blakeney Way
- Appendix 05..........Exhibition Plan
