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The documentary film reader : history, theory, criticism /

The Documentary Film Reader brings together an expansive range of writing by scholars, critics, historians, and filmmakers to provide a stimulating foundational text for students and others who want to undertake study of nonfiction film. While documentary has long been a mainstay of universities and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kahana, Jonathan, 1966-2019 (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; The Documentary Film Reader; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; The Documentary Film Reader; I Early Documentary: From the Illustrated Lecture to the Factual Film; 1 Introduction to Section I;)2 "From Lecturer's Prop to Industrial Product: The Early History of Travel Films" (2006);))3 "Burton Holmes Pleases a Large Audience at the Columbia" (1905); 4 "Placing the Spectator on the Scene of History: Modern Warfare and the Battle Reenactment at the Turn of the Century" (2008);)5 "Let There Be Lumière" (1999); 6 "A New Source of History" (1898).
  • 7 "Before Documentary: Early Nonfiction Films and the 'View' Aesthetic" (1997); 8 "The Continental Film Company" (1912); 9 Review of In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914); 10 "Playing Primitive" (1999); 11 "Movies of Eskimo Life Win Much Appreciation" (1915); 12 Review of Nanook of the North (1922); 13 "Flaherty's Poetic Moana" (1926); 14 "Flaherty" (1931-32); 15 "Lured by the East: Ethnographic and Expedition Films about Nomadic Tribes; The Case of Grass" (2006); 16 "Compulsive Cameramen" (1925); 17 "New Films Make War Seem More Personal" (1916).
  • 18 "Cinema, Spectatorship, and Propaganda: Battle of the Somme (1916) and Its Contemporary Audience" (1997); II Modernisms: State, Left, and Avant-Garde Documentary Between the Wars; 19 Introduction to Section II; 20 "The Art of the Camera: An Experimental "Movie")" (1921); 21 "Montage" (1947); 22 "The Man with the Movie Camera: From Magician to Epistemologist" (1972); 23 "Cinema Weekly and Cinema Truth: Dziga Vertov and the Leninist Proportion" (1973); 24 "WE: Variant of a Manifesto" (1922); 25 "Bridge" (1964); 26 "Reality at Second Hand" (1991); 27 "The Making of Rain" (1969).
  • 28 "Reflections on the Avant-Garde Documentary" (1931); 29 "Documentary Surrealism: On Land Without Bread" (1986); 30 "The Documentary Producer" (1933); 31 "First Principles of Documentary" (1932-34); 32 "Home Truths from Abroad" (1937); 33 "Straight Shots and Crooked Plots: Social Documentary and the Avant-Garde in the 1930s" (1995); 34 "The Revolutionary Film: Problem of Form" (1934); 35 "The Revolutionary Film: Next Step" (1934); 36 "A New Approach to Film Making" (1935); 37 Letter from Knoxville (1936); 38 Letter to Jay Leyda (1935); 39 "Down to Earth in Spain" (1937).
  • 40 "Historicizing the "Voice of God": The Place of Voice-Over Commentary in Classical Documentary" (1997); 41 "Triumph of the Will: Notes on Documentary and Spectacle" (1979); 42 "Films at the Fair" (1939); III Documentary Propaganda: World War II and the Post-War Citizen; 43 Introduction to Section III; 44 Review of Iwo Jima Newsreels (1945); 45 Review of San Pietro (1945); 46 "The Negro Soldier (1944): Film Propaganda in Black and White" (1979); 47 "On Why We Fight: History, Documentation, and the Newsreel" (1946).