A New History of Documentary Film includes new research that offers a fresh way to understand how the field began and grew. Retaining the original edition's core structure, there is added emphasis of the interplay among various approaches to documentaries and the people who made them. This edition also clearly explains the ways that interactions among the shifting forces of economics, technology, and artistry shape the form.
New to this edition:
- An additional chapter that brings the story of English language documentary to the present day
- Increased coverage of women and people of color in documentary production
- Streaming
- Animated documentaries
- List of documentary filmmakers, organized chronologically by the years of their activity in the field
- 443 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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A New History of Documentary Film
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- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1âWays to Think About Documentary
- 2âOrigins
- 3âExploration and Establishment
- 4âThe Soviets
- 5âAvant-Garde Expressions
- 6âInstitutionalization: Great Britain, 1929â39
- 7âInstitutionalization: United States
- 8âThe Second World War
- 9âThe Postwar Era, 1945â60
- 10âA New Channel: Documentary for Television, 1951â71
- 11âFree Cinema/New American Cinema, 1953â69
- 12âCinĂ©ma VeritĂ©/Direct Cinema
- 13âPower to the People: The 1970s
- 14âVideo Arrives and Conquers: The 1980s
- 15â100 Years of Documentary
- 16âDocumentary Traditions in the Twenty-first Century
- 17âAcademic and Theoretical Approaches
- 18âNow and When
- Documentaries About Documentaries
- Filmmakers
- Author Index
- Film Titles
- Plates
- Copyright
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