The Documentary Film Reader

Author : Jonathan Kahana
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190459321

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The Documentary Film Reader by Jonathan Kahana Pdf

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.

Author : Jonathan Kahana
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1057 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199739646

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The Documentary Film Reader by Jonathan Kahana Pdf

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.

Author : Kay Dickinson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0415281598

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Movie Music, the Film Reader by Kay Dickinson Pdf

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.

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781405153348

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Auteurs and Authorship by Barry Keith Grant Pdf

Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader offers students an introductory and comprehensive view of perhaps the most central concept in film studies. This unique anthology addresses the aesthetic and historical debates surrounding auteurship while providing author criticism and analysis in practice. Examines a number of mainstream and established directors, including John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Douglas Sirk, Frank Capra, Kathryn Bigelow, and Spike Lee Features historically important, foundational texts as well as contemporary pieces Includes numerous student features, such as a general editor’s introduction, short prefaces to each of the sections, bibliography, alternative tables of contents, and boxed features Each essay deliberately focuses across film makers’ oeuvres, rather than on one specific film, to enable lecturers to have flexibility in constructing their syllabi

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814339725

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Documenting the Documentary by Barry Keith Grant Pdf

Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documentary responded to a scholarly landscape in which documentary film was largely understudied and undervalued aesthetically, and analyzed instead through issues of ethics, politics, and film technology. Editors Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski addressed this gap by presenting a useful survey of the artistic and persuasive aspects of documentary film from a range of critical viewpoints. This new edition of Documenting the Documentary adds five new essays on more recent films in addition to the text of the first edition. Thirty-one film and media scholars, many of them among the most important voices in the area of documentary film, cover the significant developments in the history of documentary filmmaking from Nanook of the North (1922), the first commercially released documentary feature, to contemporary independent film and video productions like Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (2005) and the controversial Borat (2006). The works discussed also include representative examples of many important national and stylistic movements and various production contexts, from mainstream to avant-garde. In all, this volume offers a series of rich and revealing analyses of those "regimes of truth" that still fascinate filmgoers as much today as they did at the very beginnings of film history. As documentary film and visual media become increasingly important ways for audiences to process news and information, Documenting the Documentary continues to be a vital resource to understanding the genre. Students and teachers of film studies and fans of documentary film will appreciate this expanded classic volume.

Author : Laura Rascaroli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190656393

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How the Essay Film Thinks by Laura Rascaroli Pdf

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.

Author : Brian Winston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838718749

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The Documentary Film Book by Brian Winston Pdf

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 : Steven Rawle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350306677

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Transnational Cinema by Steven Rawle Pdf

This core teaching text provides a thorough overview of the recently emerged field of transnational film studies. Covering a range of approaches to analysing films about migrant, cross-cultural and cross-border experience, Steven Rawle demonstrates how film production has moved beyond clear national boundaries to become a product of border crossing finance and creative personnel. This comprehensive introduction brings together the key concepts and theories of transnational cinema, including genre, remakes, diasporic and exilic cinema, and the limits of thinking about cinema as a particularly national cultural artefact. It is an excellent course companion for undergraduate students of film, cinema, media and cultural studies studying transnational and global cinema, and provides both students and lovers of film alike with a strong grounding in this timely field of film studies.

Author : Harry M. Benshoff,Sean Griffin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Homosexuality and motion pictures
ISBN : 0415319870

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Queer Cinema by Harry M. Benshoff,Sean Griffin Pdf

Queer Cinema, the Film Reader brings together key writings that use queer theory to explore cinematic sexualities, especially those historically designated as gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or transgendered.

Author : Wheeler W. Dixon,Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Experimental films
ISBN : 0415277876

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Experimental Cinema by Wheeler W. Dixon,Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Rabiger
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780240810898

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Directing the Documentary by Michael Rabiger Pdf

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.

Author : Seth Feldman,Joyce Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015003759514

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Canadian Film Reader by Seth Feldman,Joyce Nelson Pdf

Author : Stephen Most
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781785335761

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Stories Make the World by Stephen Most Pdf

Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make the World, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of how documentary filmmakers and other storytellers come to understand their subjects and cast light on the world through their art. Drawing on the author’s decades of experience behind the scenes of television and film documentaries, this is an indispensable account of the principles and paradoxes that attend the quest to represent reality truthfully.

Author : John Parris Springer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476610498

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Docufictions by John Parris Springer Pdf

Through most of the 20th century, the distinction between the fictional narrative film and the documentary was vigorously maintained. The documentary tradition developed side by side with, but in the shadow of, the more commercially successful feature film. In the latter part of the century, however, the two forms merged on occasion, and mockumentaries (fictional works in a documentary format) and docudramas (reality-based works in a fictional format) became part of the film and television landscape. The 18 essays here examine the relationships between narrative fiction films and documentary filmmaking, focusing on how each influenced the other and how the two were merged in such diverse films and shows as Citizen Kane, M*A*S*H, This Is Spinal Tap, and Destination Moon. Topics include the docudrama in early cinema, the industrial film as faux documentary, the fear evoked in 1950s science fiction films, the selling of “reality” in mockumentaries, and reality television and documentary forms. The essays provide a foundation for significant rethinking of film history and criticism, offering the first significant discussion of two emerging and increasingly important genres. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Kevin Macdonald,Mark Cousins
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780571261451

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Imagining Reality by Kevin Macdonald,Mark Cousins Pdf

In Imaging Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, Oscar-winning documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald ( One Day in September, Touching the Void) and leading broadcaster/historian Mark Cousins ( The Story of Film) offer an expanded, revised edition of their 'definitive, inspirational' ( Independent) compendium on the roots and history of the documentary film. Imagining Reality takes the reader on a tour of the evolution of documentary film as an increasingly vibrant, polemical, experimental and entertaining form. It gathers a wide-ranging collection of writings by and about such groundbreaking documentary-makers as Vertov, Flaherty, Marcel Ophuls, Chris Marker, Kieslowski, Claude Lanzmann, and Nick Broomfield. The story is carried up to date by attention to the success documentaries have had among mainstream movie audiences in recent years, including Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, The Buena Vista Social Club, Spellbound, Capturing The Friedmans, Être Et Avoir, and The Fog Of War.