Documentary Film Classics

Klappentext This book offers close readings of a number of major documentaries. The author analyzes the philosophical and historical issues and themes implicit in these works. Designed to guide film students through the 'texts' of films that span the history of the documentary film movement! his readings also focus on the achievements of these works as films per se. Zusammenfassung Documentary Film Classics offers close readings on a number of major films! such as Nanook of the North! Land Without Bread! Night and Fog! Chronicle of a Summer and Don't Look Back. Spanning the history of the documentary film tradition! William Rothman analyses the philosophical and historical issues and themes implicit in these works. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Nanook of the North; 2. Land Without Bread; 3. Night and Fog; 4. Chronicle of a Summer: Jean Rouch, Cinema-verite and 'shared anthropology'; 5. Cinema-verite in America (I): A Happy Mother's Day; 6. Cinema-verite in America (II): rebel with a cause: Don't Look Back.

Product details

• Authors: William Rothman, William (University of Miami) Rothman
• Assisted by: Dudley Andrew (Editor), William Rothman (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.1997
• EAN: 9780521456814
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45681-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Film; Cambridge Studies in Film
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches