A New History of Documentary Film
ISBN: 9780826417510 | 0826417515
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date: 8/1/2005
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A thorough and definitive survey/history of documentary films. Concentrating mainly on the output of the US, the UK, and Canada, the authors outline the origins of the form and then show its development over the next several decades. The book is completely up-to-date in discussing films like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer.Written in a simple, chronological format, the text is straightforward and full of content, information, and historical perspective. Each chapter concludes with a list of the key documentaries in... MORE
| Preface | ix | ||||
| Chapter 1 Some Ways to Think About Documentary | 1 | (11) | |||
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| Chapter 2 Beginnings: The Americans and Popular Anthropology, 1922-1929 | 12 | (15) | |||
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| Chapter 3 Beginnings: The Soviets and Political Indoctrination, 1922-1929 | 27 | (17) | |||
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| Chapter 4 Beginnings: The European Avant-Gardists and Artistic Experimentation, 1922-1929 | 44 | (13) | |||
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| Chapter 5 Institutionalization: Great Britain, 1929-1939 | 57 | (20) | |||
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| Chapter 6 Institutionalization: United States, 1930-1941 | 77 | (28) | |||
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| Chapter 7 Expansion: Great Britain, 1939-1945 | 105 | (15) | |||
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| Chapter 8 Expansion: Canada, 1939-1945 | 120 | (10) | |||
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| Chapter 9 Expansion: United States, 1941-1945 | 130 | (18) | |||
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| Chapter 10 The Unfulfilled Promise: Postwar Documentary, 1945-1952 | 148 | (19) | |||
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| Chapter 11 In Pursuit of Excellence: National Film Board of Canada's Unit B, 1948-1964 | 167 | (12) | |||
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| Chapter 12 A New Channel: Documentary for Television, the "Golden Years," 1951-1971 | 179 | (17) | |||
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| Chapter 13 British Free Cinema and Social-Realist Features, 1956-1963 | 196 | (12) | |||
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| Chapter 14 Direct Cinema and Cinema Write, 1960-1970 | 208 | (19) | |||
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| Chapter 15 English-Language Documentary in the 1970's—Power of the People | 227 | (31) | |||
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| Chapter 16 English-Language Documentary in the 1980's—Video Arrives | 258 | (35) | |||
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| Chapter 17 English-Language Documentary in the 1990's and Beyond—Reality Bytes | 293 | (33) | |||
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| Chapter 18 Some Other Ways to Think About Documentary | 326 | (15) | |||
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| Appendices | 341 | (16) | |||
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| Index | 357 | (28) | |||
| Acknowledgments from Betsy A. McLane | 385 |
Jack C. Ellis is Professor Emeritus of Northwestern University Betsy A. McLane is a former Executive Director of the International Documentary
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