The Documentary Film Reader
The Documentary Film Reader

Author: Jonathan Kahana

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 1057

ISBN-13: 0199739641

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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 cinematheques, its popularity of late has grown tenfold as reality television has flourished and as the ranks of novice filmmakers have swelled. There are now dozens of film festivals dedicated exclusively to documentaries. This reader presents an international perspective on the most significant developments and debates from several decades of critical writing about documentary. It integrates historical and theoretical approaches, offering a collection that is particularly well suited to meet the needs of large undergraduate survey courses on nonfiction film, as well as providing sufficient depth for graduate classes.

Movie Music, the Film Reader
Movie Music, the Film Reader

Author: Kay Dickinson

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780415281591

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This reader brings together a wide range of writings to examine the role of music in cinema. Articles by leading critics including Theodor Adorno, Lawrence Grossberg and Lisa A. Lewis explore the function of the soundtrack, the place of song in film, andlook at how cinema has represented music and the music industry.

The Documentary Film Reader
The Documentary Film Reader

Author: Jonathan Kahana

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-01-21

Total Pages: 1057

ISBN-13: 0190459328

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Bringing together an expansive range of writing by scholars, critics, historians, and filmmakers, The Documentary Film Reader presents an international perspective on the most significant developments and debates from several decades of critical writing about documentary. Each of the book's seven sections covers a distinct period in the history of documentary, collecting both contemporary and retrospective views of filmmaking in the era. And each section is prefaced by an introductory essay that explains its design and provides critical context. Painstakingly selected from the archives of more than a hundred years of cinema practice and theory, the essays, reviews, interviews, manifestos, and ephemera gathered in this volume suit the needs and interests of the beginning student, the advanced scholar, the casual reader, and the working documentarian.

Experimental Cinema
Experimental Cinema

Author: Wheeler W. Dixon

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780415277877

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Brings together key writings on American avant-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground filmmaking from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists.

How the Essay Film Thinks
How the Essay Film Thinks

Author: Laura Rascaroli

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-05-05

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0190656395

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This book offers a novel understanding of the epistemological strategies that are mobilized by the essay film, and of where and how such strategies operate. Against the backdrop of Adorno's discussion of the essay form's anachronistic, anti-systematic and disjunctive mode of resistance, and capitalizing on the centrality of the interstice in Deleuze's understanding of the cinema as image of thought, the book discusses the essay film as future philosophy-as a contrarian, political cinema whose argumentation engages with us in a space beyond the verbal. A diverse range of case studies discloses how the essay film can be a medium of thought on the basis of its dialectic use of audiovisual interstitiality. The book shows how the essay film's disjunctive method comes to be realized at the level of medium, montage, genre, temporality, sound, narration, and framing-all of these emerging as interstitial spaces of intelligence that illustrate how essayistic meaning can be sustained, often in contexts of political, historical or cultural extremity. The essayistic urge is not to be identified with a fixed generic form, but is rather situated within processes of filmic thinking that thrive in gaps.

Liquid Metal
Liquid Metal

Author: Sean Redmond

Publisher: Wallflower Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9781903364871

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This reader brings together a great number of what are regarded to be the 'seminal' essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. It includes key essays by writers such as J.P. Telotte, Susan Sontag and Peter Biskind.

Reading in the Reel World
Reading in the Reel World

Author: John Golden

Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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By tapping into students' natural attraction to film, teachers can help students understand key concepts such as theme, tone, and point of view as well as practice and improve their persuasive, narrative, and expository writing abilities. Studying documentaries helps students learn how nonfiction texts are constructed and how these texts may shape the viewer's/reader's opinion. The book includes classroom-tested activities, ready-to-copy handouts, and extensive lists of resources, such as a glossary of film terminology, an index of documentaries by category, and an annotated list of additional resources. More than thirty films are discussed, giving teachers the tools needed to effectively teach nonfiction texts using popular documentaries.

Directing the Documentary
Directing the Documentary

Author: Michael Rabiger

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 0240810899

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Michael Rabiger guides the reader through the stages required to conceive, edit and produce a documentary. He also provides advice on the law, ethics and authorship as well as career possibilities and finding work.

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.

The Stones of Summer
The Stones of Summer

Author: Dow Mossman

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9780760748848

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Episodic coming of age saga.