Documentary Film: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Documentary Film: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780195182705

ISBN-10: 0195182707

ISBN-13: 9780195182705

Edition: 2007

Authors: Patricia Aufderheide

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Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes readers along the diverse paths of documentary history and charts the lively, often fierce debates among filmmakers and scholars about the best ways to represent reality and to tell the truths worth telling. Beginning with an overview of the central issues of documentary filmmaking--its definitions and purposes, its forms…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/28/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.81" wide x 4.29" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction



Defining the documentary


Naming


Form


Founders


Cinema verite



Subgenres


Public affairs


Government propaganda


Advocacy


Historical


Ethnographic


Nature



Conclusion


A note on history and scholarship


One Hundred Great Documentaries


Further Reading and Viewing


Index