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Dictated Sequences and the Pursuit of Efficiency in the Physical Culture Movement 1896-1939: A Filmic Scrutiny.

Dr Adele Carroll


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PhD Part Six: Chronology

Saturday 5 September 2015

Contents List

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 
  1. Appendix 01..........Physical & Efficiency Book Collection Audit 
  2. Appendix 02..........Categories of Documentary Film 
  3. Appendix 03..........Interview Questions 
  4. Appendix 04..........Film Scripts:
    ..........Building the Supermale
    ..........Bodies in Formation
    ..........Nighcraft
    ..........The Wilfred Blakeney Way
     
  5. Appendix 05..........Exhibition Plan




PhD part 05

PhD part 04

PhD part 03

PhD part 02