Direct Cinema
Author: Dave Saunders
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Direct Cinema' is a comprehensive study of the seminal 'direct cinema' movement of 1960s America.
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The Documentary Film Book
Author: Brian Winston
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-07-25
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1838718753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPowerfully 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 Philosophical History of Documentary, 1895–1959
Author: Dan Geva
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-09-15
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 3030794660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a chronology of thirty definitions attributed to the word, term, phrase, and concept of “documentary” between the years 1895 and 1959. The book dedicates one chapter to each of the thirty definitions, scrutinizing their idiosyncratic language games from close range while focusing on their historical roots and concealed philosophical sources of inspiration. Dan Geva's principal argument is twofold: first, that each definition is an original ethical premise of documentary; and second, that only the structured assemblage of the entire set of definitions successfully depicts the true ethical nature of documentary insofar as we agree to consider its philosophical history as a reflective object of thought in a perpetual state of being-self-defined: an ethics sui generis.
Voyages of Discovery
Author: Barry Keith Grant
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2023-05-16
Total Pages: 570
ISBN-13: 0231556373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrederick Wiseman is America’s foremost chronicler of public institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and local governments; hospitals; asylums; creative organizations and museums; schools; libraries; and more. In recent years, Wiseman’s work has reached a new level of popularity, with films such as In Jackson Heights (2015), Monrovia, Indiana (2018), and City Hall (2020) all earning widespread acclaim. Voyages of Discovery is the definitive account of Wiseman’s career, offering a comprehensive analysis of the work of the leading documentary filmmaker in the United States. In this updated edition, Barry Keith Grant adds new material exploring the documentarian’s works since the 1990s, discussing every film in Wiseman’s remarkable sixty-year career. He examines the core concerns running across Wiseman’s work from the early films, which focus on documenting institutional failure, through an expanding interest in cultural institutions and ideology, to a blossoming embrace of democracy in later films. He pays particular attention to Wiseman’s strategies for involving and implicating the spectator in the institutional processes the films document. Grant also places Wiseman within the history of the documentary and other traditions of American art and considers the relationship between documentary film and authorship. Voyages of Discovery is an important book for anyone interested in Wiseman’s work or how documentary film can reveal the fabric of our shared civic life.
Independent Chinese Documentary
Author: L. Robinson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-01-27
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1137271221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This book is a sustained examination of Chinese independent documentary in relation to one of its central principles: xianchang, or being 'on the scene'.
Claiming the Real
Author: Brian Winston
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-07-25
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1838715118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClaiming the Real II describes the origins, development and current state of documentary cinema, and the social, political, industrial and ethical factors that determine its production. This new edition addresses the ethical quagmires, digital technologies and proliferating forms that have transformed documentary cinema.
The Cinema of John Boorman
Author: Brian Hoyle
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0810883953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a critical study of the writer and director's feature films as well as lesser-known works for television.
1968 and Global Cinema
Author: Christina Gerhardt
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2018-10-17
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0814342949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume is ideal for graduate and undergraduate courses on the long sixties, political cinema, 1968, and new waves in art history, cultural studies, and film and media studies.
Radical Documentary and Global Crises
Author: Ryan Watson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0253058015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen independent filmmakers, activists, and amateurs document the struggle for rights, representation, and revolution, they instrumentalize images by advocating for a particular outcome. Ryan Watson calls this "militant evidence." In Radical Documentary and Global Crises, Watson centers the discussion on extreme conflict, such as the Iraq War, the occupation of Palestine, the war in Syria, mass incarceration in the United States, and child soldier conscription in the Congo. Under these conditions, artists and activists aspire to document, archive, witness, and testify. The result is a set of practices that turn documentary media toward a commitment to feature and privilege the media made by the people living through the terror. This footage is then combined with new digitally archived images, stories, and testimonials to impact specific social and political situations. Radical Documentary and Global Crises re-orients definitions of what a documentary is, how it functions, how it circulates, and how its effect is measured, arguing that militant evidence has the power to expose, to amass, and to adjudicate.
Killer Images
Author: Joram ten Brink
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-01-08
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0231850247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the imaginations and actions of perpetrators and survivors of violence is all the more urgent. If the cinematic image and mass violence are among the defining features of modernity, the former is significantly implicated in the latter, and the nature of this implication is the book's central focus. This book brings together a range of newly commissioned essays and interviews from the world's leading academics and documentary filmmakers, including Ben Anderson, Errol Morris, Harun Farocki, Rithy Phan, Avi Mograbi, Brian Winston, and Michael Chanan. Contributors explore such topics as the tension between remembrance and performance, the function of moving images in the execution of political violence, and nonfiction filmmaking methods that facilitate communities of survivors to respond to, recover, and redeem a history that sought to physically and symbolically annihilate them
