Documentary films

This book introduces a new form of documentary film: the Geo-Doc, designed to maximize the influential power of the documentary film as an agent of social change.

This book explores "e;Making of"e; sites as a genre of cultural artefact.

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

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals, looking at its contemporary and future challenges.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals.

Discover the shocking story of Joe Exotic versus Carole Baskin, as seen on the Netflix phenomenon, Tiger King.

Pictures from Abu Ghraib showed the power of the amateur image to grab the world's attention.

Screen documentary has experienced a marked rise in visibility and popularity in recent years.

Screen documentary has experienced a marked rise in visibility and popularity in recent years.

Taking the Long View is a study of documentary series such as Michael Apted's world-famous Seven Up films that set out to trace the life-journeys of individuals from their earliest schooldays till they are fully grown adults, often with children of their own.

Contemporary Cultural Tools for Identities in the Making asks how cultural and artistic practices constitute a central tool for the expression and recognition of individual and collective identities, and how shared creative efforts shape alternative lexical and symbolic languages.

This will be the first edited collection in English on urban space and architecture in Spanish popular film since 1898.

This book explores the diversity of perspectives afforded by the emerging body of Scandinavian films produced by women.

For over five decades, the Newcastle-based Amber Film and Photography Collective has been a critical (if often unheralded) force within British documentary filmmaking, producing a variety of innovative works focused on working-class society.

Get ready to spot hundreds of things you've never seen before across a wide range of films, in this brand new book from the creator of Den Of Geek.

William Blake famously imagined 'Jerusalem builded here' in London.

Filmmakers in the early decades of the Soviet Union sought to create a cinematic map of the new state by portraying its land and peoples on screen.

Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world.

How do you make a successful documentary in an era of media turmoil, network disruption and increasing financial restrictions?

How do you make a successful documentary in an era of media turmoil, network disruption and increasing financial restrictions?

Regarding the real develops an original approach to documentary film, focusing on its aesthetic relations to visual arts such as animation, assemblage, photography, painting and architecture.

Regarding the real develops an original approach to documentary film, focusing on its aesthetic relations to visual arts such as animation, assemblage, photography, painting and architecture.

During the first decade of the twenty-first century, a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues has been met with critical and popular acclaim.

During the first decade of the twenty-first century, a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues has been met with critical and popular acclaim.

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

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

Downtown Film and TV Culture, 1975-2001 brings together essays by filmmakers, exhibitors, cultural critics, and scholars from multiple generations of the New York Downtown scene to illuminate individual films and filmmakers and explore the creation of a Downtown Canon, the impact of AIDS on younger filmmakers, community access cable television broadcasts, and the impact of the historic downtown scene on contemporary experimental culture.

Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001 brings together essays by filmmakers, exhibitors, cultural critics and scholars from multiple generations of the New York Downtown scene to illuminate individual films and filmmakers and explore the creation of a Downtown Canon, the impact of AIDS on younger filmmakers, community access to cable television broadcasts, and the impact of the historic downtown scene on contemporary experimental culture.

Film festivals are an ever-growing part of the film industry, but most considerations of them focus almost entirely on their role in the business of filmmaking.

Film festivals are an ever-growing part of the film industry, but most considerations of them focus almost entirely on their role in the business of filmmaking.

Lucid Dreaming is an unprecedented global collection of discussions with documentary and experimental filmmakers, giving film and video its rightful place alongside the written word as an essential medium for conveying the most urgent concerns in contemporary arts and politics.

Building confidence through a careful, step-by-step approach, this book is an essential companion for students undertaking A Level Film Studies.

"e;A towering achievement, and a volume I know I'll be consulting on a regular basis.

Documentary students and fans revel in stories about filmmakers conquering extraordinary challenges trying to bring their work to the screen.

Documentary students and fans revel in stories about filmmakers conquering extraordinary challenges trying to bring their work to the screen.

After the Fact studies the terrain of Holocaust documentaries subsequent to the turn of the twenty-first century.

After the Fact studies the terrain of Holocaust documentaries subsequent to the turn of the twenty-first century.

Letters from prison, songs, poems, and courtroom statements, plus tributes to the Russian punk band that shook the world.

Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human experience.

How to Film Truth explores the history of documentary film as a search for truth by filmmakers, and a journey of discovery for subjects and audiences.

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license.

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license.

Come round to Louis Theroux's house, where the much-loved documentary-maker finds himself in unexpected danger .

George Polk Award Winner: This account of American book banning and the battles against it is "e;a tour de force to fascinate lawyers and laymen alike"e; (The New York Times Book Review).

Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness.