Documentary films

New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is the first book to offer a lengthy examination of the relationship between fiction and documentary from the perspective of art and poetics.

Martin Scorsese's Documentary Histories: Migrations, Movies, Music is the first comprehensive study of Martin Scorsese's prolific work as a documentary filmmaker.

How does popular music influence the culture and reputation of a city, and what does a city do to popular music?

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

This book explores contemporary American true crime narratives across various media formats.

When a filmmaker makes a film with herself as a subject, she is already divided as both the subject matter of the film and the subject making the film.

The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony, an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor.

The Classical Animated Documentary and Its Contemporary Evolution is the first book to provide an historical insight into the animated documentary.

In this revised and updated edition of the StoryCenter's popular guide to digital storytelling, StoryCenter founder Joe Lambert offers budding storytellers the skills and tools they need to craft compelling digital stories.

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.

Ranging from blockbuster movies to experimental shorts or documentaries to scientific research, computer animation shapes a great part of media communication processes today.

The films made by the British Instructional Films (BIF) company in the decade following the end of the First World War helped to shape the way in which that war was remembered.

This landmark collection of essays considers the global legacy of John Grierson, the father of British documentary.

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.

The People's Front in Defense of Land of Atenco (the "e;Frente"e;) is an emblematic force in contemporary Mexican politics and in anti-capitalist, anti-neoliberal activist networks throughout the world.

This book examines the connections between race, place, and space, and sheds light on how they contribute and maintain racial hierarchies.

This companion piece to Susan Hayward's Film Ecology focuses on ecology documentaries produced in the first 20 years of the new millennium (2000-19).

The fourth volume in the Docalogue series, this book explores the significance of the documentary Honeyland (2019) in relation to documentary ethics, the representation of human and animal relations, environmental studies, genre theory, and documentary distribution.

This book is a collection of personal essays that address critical elements involved in the production of nonfiction films.

This volume will be a 'time capsule' of the first 10 years of Studies in Documentary Film (2007-2016), tracing not only the development of the journal but also of documentary studies in the same period.

Since the late 1990s in Israel, third-generation Holocaust survivors have become the new custodians of cultural memory, and the documentary films they produce play a major role in shaping a societal consensus of commemoration.

This volume brings together emerging approaches and addresses shifting paradigms in Chinese science fiction studies, offering a window on fan cultures, internet fiction, gender, eco-criticism, post-humanism and biomedical discourse.

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

In this revised and updated edition of the StoryCenter's popular guide to digital storytelling, StoryCenter founder Joe Lambert offers budding storytellers the skills and tools they need to craft compelling digital stories.

During the first decades of the 21st century, a critical re-assessment of the reenactment as a form of historical representation has taken place in the disciplines of history, art history and performance studies.

Written for working and aspiring filmmakers, directors, producers and screenwriters, The Marketing Edge for Filmmakers walks through every stage of the marketing process - from concept to post-production - and illustrates how creative decisions at each stage will impact the marketability of a film.

The Documentary Filmmaker's Roadmap is a concise and practical guide to making a feature-length documentary film-from funding to production to distribution, exhibition and marketing.

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

This book is an introduction to the art and craft of documentary filmmaking with a focus on ethics and impact from development through distribution.

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.

Combining essays and interviews with nonfiction filmmakers, this collection explores the business side of nonfiction media creation for film and television.

Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 19581977explores how documentarians working between the election of John F.

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

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

This distinctively interdisciplinary book draws upon psychoanalytic theory to explore how expectations, desires and fears of documentary subjects and filmmakers are engaged, and the ethical issues that can arise as a result.

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

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

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

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

The present book aims to explore how the perpetrator of crimes against humanity is represented in recent documentary films in different sociocultural contexts around the world.

As we approach the end of the 'era of the witness', given the passing on of the generation of Holocaust survivors, Claude Lanzmann's archive of 220 hours of footage excluded from his ground-breaking documentary Shoah (1985) offers a remarkable opportunity to encounter previously unseen interviews with survivors and other witnesses, recorded in the late 1970s.

This collection of iconic interviews helps demystify the documentary filmmaking process by deconstructing the most relevant and important scenes in some of today's most well-known documentary films.

This book is an introduction to the art and craft of documentary filmmaking with a focus on ethics and impact from development through distribution.

Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video focuses on an underexamined group of female Palestinian filmmakers, highlighting their relevance for thinking through a diverse set of issues relating to decolonial aesthetics, post-nationalism and gender, non-Western ecologies, trauma and memory, diasporic experiences of space, biopolitics, feminist historiography and decolonial temporalities.

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.

Claude Lanzmann's epic 1985 film 'Shoah' tells the story of the Holocaust through interviews with survivors of the extermination camps, bystanders who watched or participated in mass murder, and some of the perpetrators of genocide.

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.

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

A refreshing new practical approach to documentary filmmaking, Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking equips new and veteran filmmakers with the knowhow to make artistically rewarding documentaries for less money, less hassle, and less time.