Description
Efnisyfirlit
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- How to Study Documentary
- How to Use This Book
- 1 Ways to Think About Documentary
- Description
- Definition
- Intellectual Contexts
- 2 Origins
- Early War and Propaganda Films
- Propaganda
- 3 Exploration and Establishment
- Exploration
- Early Visual Anthropology
- Frances and Robert Flaherty
- 4 The Soviets
- Reportage/Newsreel
- Theory
- Compilation
- Epic
- Fiction and Documentary
- 5 Avant-Garde Expressions
- Avant-Garde and Documentary
- City Symphonies
- Three Classic European City Symphonies
- Changes in the Avant-Garde
- 6 Institutionalization: Great Britain, 1929–39
- Background
- The System
- The Films
- Women Filmmakers
- Grierson’s Lasting Contribution
- 7 Institutionalization: United States
- The March of Time
- Government Sponsorship
- Nongovernment Documentaries
- Comparisons: The United Kingdom and The United States
- Canada
- An Aside
- 8 The Second World War
- Part A: Great Britain
- Part B: Canada
- Part C: United States
- Conclusions
- 9 The Postwar Era, 1945–60
- Personnel and Leadership
- Sponsorship
- Marshall Plan Films
- Canadian Independents
- USIA Films
- Subjects
- Approaches and Techniques
- 10 A New Channel: Documentary for Television, 1951–71
- A Technical Note
- Historical Background
- Documentary Series
- Characteristics of Broadcast Television Documentary
- 11 Free Cinema/New American Cinema, 1953–69
- Britain
- Critical Background
- The Films
- Meaning
- United States
- New York School Films
- New American Cinema
- 12 Cinéma Verité/Direct Cinema
- Historical Background
- New Technologies
- Canada
- United States
- The Films
- France
- Direct Cinema versus Cinema Verité
- Effects on Subjects and Styles
- Opposite Directions
- 13 Power to the People: The 1970s
- Some Established Filmmakers
- New Directions in CV/Direct
- Political Emphases
- The Feminist Surge
- Women’s Institutions
- Challenge for Change
- Public Access Television
- Other Emerging Organizations
- Conclusions
- 14 Video Arrives and Conquers: The 1980s
- Film to Video
- Cable and Satellite Technology
- The Personal Essay Film
- Historical Compilation
- Strictly Political
- Ongoing Activism
- Racial and Ethnic Voices
- Canada
- England
- Representing Gay and Lesbian Culture
- 15 100 Years of Documentary
- Business and Technology: The Bad and the Good
- American Public Television
- Archival Storytelling
- The Ken Burns Phenomenon
- Canada Soldiers On
- Developments in the UK
- American Independents
- 16 Documentary Traditions in the Twenty-first Century
- United States
- Six Noted Filmmakers
- Animation
- Experimental Film
- 17 Academic and Theoretical Approaches
- Finance
- Money and Ethics
- Film Festivals
- 18 Now and When
- Globalization
- Aesthetics and Content
- Intimate Doings of Reality
- Technologies
- Social Media and Documentary
- Commitment to History
- Effectiveness
- Conclusions
- Documentaries About Documentaries
- Filmmakers
- Introduction to Lists
- First-generation Documentary Makers
- Second-generation Documentary Makers
- Third-generation Documentary Makers
- Author Index
- Film Titles
- Plates
- Copyright
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.