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 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. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Charles Musser Introduction I. Early Documentary: From the Illustrated Lecture to the Factual Film Jonathan Kahana, Introduction to Section I Rick Altman, "From Lecturer's Prop to Industrial Product: The Early History of Travel Films" (2006) Anonymous, "Burton Holmes Pleases a Large Audience at the Columbia" (1905) Kristen Whissel, "Placing the Spectator on the Scene of History: Modern Warfare and the Battle Reenactment at the Turn of the Century" (2008) Dai Vaughan, "Let There Be Lumière" (1999) Boleslas Matuszewski, "A New Source of History" (1898) Tom Gunning, "Before Documentary: Early Nonfiction Films and the 'View' Aesthetic" (1997) Edward Curtis et al., "The Continental Film Company" (1912) W. Stephen Bush, "In The Land of the Head Hunters" (1914) Catherine Russell, "Playing Primitive" (1999) Anonymous, "Movies of Eskimo Life Win Much Appreciation" (1915) Anonymous, "Nanook of the North" (1922) John Grierson, "Flaherty's Poetic Moana" (1926) John Grierson, "Flaherty" (1931-32) Hamid Naficy, "Lured by the East: Ethnographic and Expedition Films about Nomadic Tribes; The Case of Grass" (2006) Béla Balázs, "Compulsive Cameramen" (1925) Anonymous, "New Films Make War Seem More Personal" (1916) Nicholas Reeves, "Cinema, Spectatorship, and Propaganda: Battle of the Somme (1916) and Its Contemporary Audience" (1997) II. Modernisms: State, Left, and Avant-Garde Documentary Between the Wars Jonathan Kahana, Introduction to Section II Robert Allerton Parker, "The Art of the Camera: An Experimental 'Movie'" (1921) Siegfried Kracauer, "Montage" (1947) Annette Michelson, "The Man with the Movie Camera: From Magician to Epistemologist" (1972) Seth Feldman, "Cinema Weekly and Cinema Truth: Dziga Vertov and the Leninist Proportion" (1973) Dziga Vertov, "WE: Variant of a Manifesto" (1922) Jay Leyda, "Bridge" (1964) Mikhail Iampolsky, "Reality at Second Hand" (1991) Joris Ivens, "The Making of Rain" (1969) Joris Ivens, "Reflections on the Avant-Garde Documentary" (1931) Tom Conley, "Documentary Surrealism: On Land Wit...

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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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jonathan Kahana, Charles Musser
• Con la collaborazione di: Jonathan Kahana (Editore), Charles Musser (Prefazione)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.09.2015
• EAN: 9780199739653
• ISBN: 978-0-19-973965-3
• Pagine: 1056
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Fotografia, cinematografia, video, TV