A New History of British Documentary

A New History of British Documentary

Author: J. Chapman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-11

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 0230392873

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A New History of British Documentary is the first comprehensive overview of documentary production in Britain from early film to the present day. It covers both the film and television industries and demonstrates how documentary practice has adapted to changing institutional and ideological contexts.


A New History of Documentary Film

A New History of Documentary Film

Author: Jack C. Ellis

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2005-08-01

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780826417510

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This history of documentary film concentrates mainly on the output of the film industries in the US, the UK and Canada. The authors outline the origins of the form and trace its development over the next several decades. Each chapter concludes with a list of the key documentaries in that time period or genre.


A New History of British Documentary

A New History of British Documentary

Author: J. Chapman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-11

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0230392873

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A New History of British Documentary is the first comprehensive overview of documentary production in Britain from early film to the present day. It covers both the film and television industries and demonstrates how documentary practice has adapted to changing institutional and ideological contexts.


Another Country

Another Country

Author: Gerry Badger

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2022-07-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0500022178

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From the Second World War to Brexit and Covid-19, a vividly written, generously illustrated history of British documentary photography by renowned writer and critic Gerry Badger. Another Country offers a lively, vital rethinking of British documentary photography over the last seven decades. This collection includes a diverse range of photographers working in an exciting array of photographic and artistic modes, encompassing images from iconic reportage to photo-text pieces, from self-portraits to political photo-collages. As Britain takes an increasingly significant place in the history of documentary photography, award-winning photography writer and critic Gerry Badger brings vital context and breadth to the conversation. Organized chronologically, each chapter spans a particular period of social and cultural history, focusing on the major photographers, figures, institutions, publications, and galleries that shaped the photographic climate of their time, as well as the broader tastes of the era. Chapter-by-chapter picture sections present famous works alongside forgotten masterpieces, interspersed with focused commentaries on selected photographs. This multilayered approach provides a rich understanding of the evolution and sheer variety of British documentary photography. A must-have for anyone interested in the history of photography, this book is a comprehensive overview of how photographers and photo- artists have depicted Britain and British society over the last seventy years.


A New History of Documentary Film

A New History of Documentary Film

Author: Betsy A. McLane

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-03-28

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 144118998X

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A New History of Documentary Film, Second Edition offers a much-needed resource, considering the very rapid changes taking place within documentary media. Building upon the best-selling 2005 edition, Betsy McLane keeps the same chronological examination, factual reliability, ease of use and accessible prose style as before, while also weaving three new threads - Experimental Documentary, Visual Anthropology and Environmental/Nature Films - into the discussion. She provides emphasis on archival and preservation history, present practices, and future needs for documentaries. Along with preservation information, specific problems of copyright and fair use, as they relate to documentary, are considered. Finally, A History of Documentary Film retains and updates the recommended readings and important films and the end of each chapter from the first edition, including the bibliography and appendices. Impossible to talk learnedly about documentary film without an audio-visual component, a companion website will increase its depth of information and overall usefulness to students, teachers and film enthusiasts.


The British Documentary Film Movement, 1926-1946

The British Documentary Film Movement, 1926-1946

Author: Paul Swann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-07-28

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780521334792

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Paul Swann's study is a political and social history of the documentary film movement led by John Grierson in the 1930s and 1940s.


The Documentary Film Book

The Documentary Film Book

Author: Brian Winston

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-07-25

Total Pages: 893

ISBN-13: 1838718745

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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.


A Documentary History of Slavery in North America

A Documentary History of Slavery in North America

Author: Willie Lee Nichols Rose

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 082032065X

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Documenting multiple aspects of slavery and its development in North America, this collection provides more than one hundred excerpts from personal accounts, songs, legal documents, diaries, letters, and other written sources. The book assembles a remarkable portrayal of the day-to-day connections between, and among, slaves and their owners across more than two centuries of subjugation and resistance, despair and hope. Beginning with a chronicle of the origins of slavery in the British colonies of North America, the collection traces the growth of the system to the antebellum period and includes accounts of slave revolts, auctions, slave travel and laws, and family life. Intimate as well as comprehensive, the documents reveal the individual views, goals, and lives of slaves and their masters, making this engaging work one of the most respected catalogs of firsthand information about slavery in North America.


British Social Realism

British Social Realism

Author: Samantha Lay

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2019-07-25

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 0231501617

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British Social Realism details and explores the rich tradition of social realism in British cinema from its beginnings in the documentary movement of the 1930s to its more stylistically eclectic and generically hybrid contemporary forms. Samantha Lay examines the movements, moments and cycles of British social realist texts through a detailed consideration of practice, politics, form, style and content, using case studies of key texts including Listen to Britain, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Letter to Brezhnev, and Nil by Mouth. In discussing the work of many prominent realist filmmakers, the book considers the challenges for social realist film practice and production in Britain, now and in the future.