Documentary films

The past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, March of the Penguins, and An Inconvenient Truth.

Este libro actualiza el panorama critico, académico y cinéfilo sobre el cine documental mediante un conjunto de indagaciones recientes que abordan un territorio audiovisual complejo, multiforme y en continua expansión.

Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics explores how graphic narratives reframe global crises while also interrogating practices of fact-finding.

This book explores the history of wildlife television in post-war Britain.

This book is framed by theories of globalization and delves into the development of a new global media culture.

Liquid Metal brings together 'seminal' essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation.

America's independent films often seem to defy classification.

A concise and accessible introduction to the role of violence from the silent era to the present, this volume illustrates the breadth and depth of screen bloodshed in historical, cultural, and industrial contexts.

This set is one of the cornerstones of film scholarship, and one of the most important works on twentieth century British culture.

Jean Hartley, born in Kenya, is acknowledged as being the first to legitimise ,fixing, for wildlife film crews.

Cuentan que a finales del siglo xix en Estados Unidos, una campaña orquestada en los periódicos del empresario William Randolph Hearst, encabezados por el New York Journal, precedió a la invasión militar de Cuba en 1898.

Rostros sin Rastros: televisión, memoria e identidad da cuenta de un trabajo que vincula la investigación social y la gestión archivística de Rostros y Rastros, programa documental de mayor duración en la historia de la televisión colombiana, producido por Universidad del Valle Televisión (UV-TV) y transmitido por Telepacífico de 1988 a 2000.

Este libro ofrece un panorama actual de conceptos y de voces en torno al cine documental.

La ampliacion del otro y la otra en la pantalla hace las veces de prueba de existencia.

Vestida de azul de Antonio Giménez-Rico fue el primer documental español protagonizado por seis mujeres transexuales que se estrenó en salas comerciales.

"Siempre nos quedará Beirut recorre audiovisualmente los episodios violentos sufridos en el Líbano desde 1975 y demuestra cómo las películas, conformando en su conjunto una filmografía completa y diversa, son una herramienta que sirve para preservar la memoria íntima, colectiva y nacional de un país.

Fortsetzung der berührenden Reise- und Liebesgeschichte einer 8000-km-Fernbeziehung.

Was will der Film (das Kino) vom Theater?

Dieses Buch leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Filmgeschichtsschreibung der frühen alliierten KZ-Befreiungsfilme.

Im dokumentarischen Film – und Film im Netz - agiert der Filmtext dramaturgisch als eine unsichtbare Nebenfigur.

Der Band setzt sich mit Fragen nach dem erkenntnistheoretischen Status des Dokumentarischen und dem Wesen des Dokumentarfilms insbesondere in historischer Hinsicht auseinander.

Das jeweils einzigartige Œuvre von Georg Stefan Troller und Hans-Dieter Grabe wird hier erstmals werk- und fernsehhistorisch umfassend analysiert.

This fascinating book from veteran film journalist Ian Haydn Smith, with a foreword from award-winning director Asif Kapadia, explores 100 of the most compelling documentaries, each with the power to radically change our perceptions and challenge the way we see the world.

This collection of essays presents new formulations of ideas and practices within documentary media that respond critically to the multifaceted challenges of our age.

This book explores the space of queer documentary through the modernist optic of Marcel Proust's 'lieu factice' (artificial place), a perspective that problematizes the location of place in a post-postmodern world with a dispersed sense of the real.

This volume addresses the underscrutinised topic of cinema newsreels.

This groundbreaking edited collection is the first major study to explore the intersection between cognitive theory and documentary film studies, focusing on a variety of formats, such as first-person, wildlife, animated and slow TV documentary, as well as docudrama and web videos.

This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction.

The theme of this book is the documentarian-what the documentarian is and how we can understand it as a concept.

This collection of essays by Australian based practitioner-theorists brings together new research on interactive documentary making.

This book examines representations of home in literary and visual cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries.

This book studies how the increase of visual representation of mixed-race Koreans formulates a particular racial project in contemporary South Korean media.

Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks like-and by doing so celebrates creative practice as an important pursuit in the contemporary academic landscape.

This book provides coverage of the diversity of Australian film and television production between 2000 and 2015.

This book analyzes how the Global Financial Crisis is portrayed in contemporary popular culture, using examples from film, literature and photography.

This volume explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within the academy more deeply in environmental research through arts-based forms.

This sixth volume in the Docalogue series explores the significance of Flee, the award-winning and critically acclaimed 2021 animated documentary about one man's journey from child refugee in Afghanistan to building a stable home as an adult with his soon-to-be husband in Denmark.

This book proposes a new approach to the study of discourse in documentary film.

This book presents a chronology of thirty definitions attributed to the word, term, phrase, and concept of "e;documentary"e; between the years 1895 and 1959.

The Female Gaze in Documentary Film - an International Perspective makes a timely contribution to the recent rise in interest in the status, presence, achievements and issues for women in contemporary screen industries.

Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics explores how graphic narratives reframe global crises while also interrogating practices of fact-finding.