Documentary movies & films books

Addressing the paradox of documentary.  Read More >>

"In this new installment of Auteur's series on Studying British Cinema (volumes on the 1960s, 1990s and the aughts...  Read More >>

"In this new installment of Auteur's series on Studying British Cinema (volumes on the 1960s, 1990s and the aughts...  Read More >>

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Examines the ways documentaries such as Fahrenheit 9/11, Spellbound, and March of the Penguins tell their stories;...  Read More >>

After ten years of correspondence, filmmaker Michael Whyte was given unprecedented access to the monastery of the...  Read More >>

From the Lumiere brothers' record of a locomotive pulling into a train station in 1895's Arrival of a Train to Disney's...  Read More >>

Examines the ways documentaries such as Fahrenheit 9/11, Spellbound, and March of the Penguins tell their stories;...  Read More >>

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This book examines Song of the Exile as diasporic cinema. As text, its practices of diasporic intimacy challenge...  Read More >>

They paint a vivid picture of institutions – from public bodies to multinational industries – constantly redefining...  Read More >>

, and figures such as Viking Eggeling, Rune Hagberg, Pontus Hult�n, �yvind Fahlstr�m, Leo Reis, Bo Jonsson, and...  Read More >>

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Focuses on the single most important aspect of documentary media-making: storytelling. This title offers advice...  Read More >>

The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is the first English-language book on Chinese documentary film, the signature...  Read More >>

The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is the first English-language book on Chinese documentary film, the signature...  Read More >>

"Initially pitched as ""the story of an uncommonly gentle man,"" ""Edward Scissorhands"" (1990) not only confirmed...  Read More >>

This study examines three long documentaries from Europe, each tracing the lives of individuals or groups as they...  Read More >>

This clear, lively introduction to documentary covers its history, cultural context and development, and the approaches,...  Read More >>

Scholars of French film state that the French made no significant contribution to documentary film prior to the...  Read More >>

This clear, lively introduction to documentary covers its history, cultural context and development, and the approaches,...  Read More >>

Traces Robert Drew's influence on cinema verite through extensive interviews with Drew and with some of the founding...  Read More >>

This book explores historical discourses on the various forms of identity production in film that are based on memory...  Read More >>

This study examines three long documentaries from Europe, each tracing the lives of individuals or groups as they...  Read More >>