Documentary Film Reader - History, Theory, Criticism

Zusatztext The volume offers a rich and varied corpus of works that includes scholarly essays, film criticism, manifestos, interviews, letters, and personal recollections ... [the editors] have performed tremendous acts of scholarly service ... [presenting] a rich mosaic of writing on film form, politics, and practice that order the discursive field while still allowing the unruly documentary construct room to breathe. Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Kahana is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of Santa Cruz. He is the author of Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Kahana, Charles Musser, Charles (Professor of Film Studies Musser, Musser Charles
• Assisted by: Jonathan Kahana (Editor), Charles Musser (Foreword)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780199739646
• ISBN: 978-0-19-973964-6
• No. of pages: 1056
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Art & Art Instruction, ART / Film & Video, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Documentary, Documentary films, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism