Book Description
A study of classic documentary film.
Author : William Rothman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780521456814
A study of classic documentary film.
Author : Brian Winston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838718745
Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never been more popular than it is today. Edited by one of the leading British authorities in the field, The Documentary Film Book is an essential guide to current thinking on documentary film. In a series of fascinating essays, key international experts discuss the theory of documentary, outline current understandings of its history (from pre-Flaherty to the post-Griersonian world of digital 'i-Docs'), survey documentary production (from Africa to Europe, and from the Americas to Asia), consider documentaries by marginalised minority communities, and assess its contribution to other disciplines and arts. Brought together here in one volume, these scholars offer compelling evidence as to why, over the last few decades, documentary has come to the centre of screen studies.
Author : Paul Swann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 1989-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780521334792
Paul Swann's study is a political and social history of the documentary film movement led by John Grierson in the 1930s and 1940s.
Author : Lucas Hilderbrand
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1551525208
Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1991) captures the energy, ambition, wit, and struggle of African-American and Latino participants in the 1980s New York drag ball scene. This book contextualizes the film within the longer history of drag balls, the practices of documentary, the fervor of the culture wars, and the development of queer theory and critical race studies.
Author : Barry Hampe
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780805081817
Outlines each step in creating documentaries, from conception to final film, and offers advice on capturing human behavior and recreating past events, with advice on how to get started in the field, a section on researching and developing a project, and current resources.
Author : William Rothman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438425023
Uses new critical approaches to demonstrate deep affinities in these vastly different filmmakers’ philosophies on film, fantasy, and reality.
Author : National Audiovisual Center
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 36,48 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Documentary films
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 2019-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781614289043
Each volume contains film stills, set photography, quotes from the cast and the filmmakers, Introductions, copies of handwritten notes by Adam Driver (Charlie) and Scarlett Johansson (pink) giving their perspectives on who the other character is. In envelopes adhered to front paste-downs of each other's volumes.
Author : Erik Barnouw
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780195078985
Presents a history of the documentary film
Author : Patricia Aufderheide
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2007-11-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0199720398
Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes readers along the diverse paths of documentary history and charts the lively, often fierce debates among filmmakers and scholars about the best ways to represent reality and to tell the truths worth telling. Beginning with an overview of the central issues of documentary filmmaking--its definitions and purposes, its forms and founders--Aufderheide focuses on several of its key subgenres, including public affairs films, government propaganda (particularly the works produced during World War II), historical documentaries, and nature films. Her thematic approach allows readers to enter the subject matter through the kinds of films that first attracted them to documentaries, and it permits her to make connections between eras, as well as revealing the ongoing nature of documentary's core controversies involving objectivity, advocacy, and bias. Interwoven throughout are discussions of the ethical and practical considerations that arise with every aspect of documentary production. A particularly useful feature of the book is an appended list of "100 great documentaries" that anyone with a serious interest in the genre should see. Drawing on the author's four decades of experience as a film scholar and critic, this book is the perfect introduction not just for teachers and students but also for all thoughtful filmgoers and for those who aspire to make documentaries themselves. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.