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Call No: 761 COR
Author: Corner, John, 1943
Place: Manchester New York, NY,
Publisher: Manchester University Press Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; CINEMA VERITE; LIVING ON THE EDGE (UK, Michael Grigsby, 1987); LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER, THE (US, Connie Field, 1980); ROGER AND ME (US, Michael Moore, 1989); HANDSWORTH SONGS (UK, John Akomfrah, 1986); COAL FACE (UK, Alberto Cavalcanti, 1935); HOUSING PROBLEMS (UK, Edgar Anstey & Arthur Elton, 1935); LOOK IN ON LONDON (UK, 1956); CATHY COME HOME (UK, Ken Loach, 1966); WHEN THE DOG BITES (UK, Penny Woolcock, 1988)
Summary: "Documentary is a controversial and important area of media production. The art of record offers a fascinating insight into the functions of documentary in film and television. Documentary's attempts to depict reality, and to comment on it, have provoked disagreement from the 1920s to the present day. Recent debates about knowledge and representation, and about the changing character of publiv culture, have increased its interests and relevance. John Corner presents a clear overview of the theoretical issues and critical debates around documentary, and discusses the development of the main styles and approaches, including dramadocs and fly-on-the-wall. He also looks at the dual identity of work in documentary - as both artefact and as reference.The book provides a valuable detailed analysis of powerful documentary films and programmes such as the classic 1930s films Coalface and Housing Problems (on aspects of contemporary work and environment), Cathy Come Home (whose presentation of homelessness had an enormous impact) and The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (about the treatment of women in US factories during World War Two)." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-201) and index
ISBN: 0719046866 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0719046874 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 12095813

Call No: 761(04) BEY
Author: Warren, Charles, 1948
Place: Hanover, NH
Publisher: University Press of New England
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: xxviii, 366 p. : ports. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; DIRECTORS; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; NEWSREELS; MEMORY IN FILMS; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; GENOCIDE IN FILMS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955); OPHULS, MARCEL; RESNAIS, ALAIN; SANS SOLEIL (FR, Chris Marker, 1983); SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985); TRI PESNI O LENINE (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1934); WR MISTERIJE ORGANIZMA (YU/GW, Dusan Makaveyev, 1971); BOOMERANG (US, Elia Kazan, 1947); VERTOV, DZIGA; MARKER, CHRIS; FILM PORTAIT (US, Jerome Hill, 1972); GARDNER, ROBERT; MCELWEE, ROSS; ZERKALO (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
Summary: "In essays by eleven of America's foremost writers, critics and filmmakers, Beyond Document explores the full spectrum on nonfiction film and its creative possibilities. In addition to Charles Warren's broad introductory history of the genre, the book takes a close look at ethnographic films, cinema verite, memoir and autobiography, docudramas, essay films, and newsreels, from classics like Night and Fog and Nanook of the North to more recent important work like Film about a Woman Who..., Harlan County, U.S.A., Sans Soleil, and Forest of Bliss. Representations of reality are increasingly contested, in courtrooms and Congress, as well as in art. Asking what the art of film can achieve, Helene Keyssar considers the history of nonfiction films by women; Jay Cantor discusses film investigations of the Holocaust; Patricia Hampl looks at how autobiographical films render experience into narrative; Robert Gardner questions the filmmaker's "impulse to preserve"; and poet Susan Howe explores structures of mourning in several filmmakers. All of the books essays provide deeply felt understandings of documentary film, and of how we live with, and within, images." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-350) and index
ISBN: 0819552879 (cl : alk. paper); 0819562904 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 11642141
Contents: Words of welcome / Stanley Cavell -- Introduction, with a brief history of nonfiction film / Charles Warren -- Death and the image / Jay Cantor -- Memory's movies / Patricia Hampl -- Eternal Verites / William Rothman -- The toil of thought: on several nonfiction films by women / Helene Keyssar -- The camera people / Eliot Weinberger -- The impulse to preserve / Robert Gardner -- You are there / Maureen Howard -- Earth and beyond: Dusan Makaveyev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism / Charles Warren -- In search of the centaur: the essay film / Phillip Lopate -- Vertov's cinematic transposition of reality / Vlada Petric -- Sorting facts; or, nineteen ways of looking at marker / Susan Howe

Call No: 511(439.1) BFS BUD
CorpAuthor: Hungarofilm
Source: HU
Place: Budapest, Hungary
Publisher: Interpress
PubDate: [1982?]
PhysDes: 39p. ; illus. ; 26cm.
Subject: HUNGARY; CINEMA VERITE; ELEK, JUDIT; EMBER, JUDIT; DARDAY, ISTVAN; GAZDAG, GYULA; Schiffer, Pal; Szalai, Gyorgyi; Vitezy, Laszlo
Notes: Includes filmographies
ISSN: 00187798
Language: English

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: CINEMA VERITE

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: CINEMA VERITE: DEFINING THE MOMENT (CA, Peter Wintonick, 1999)

Call No: 761.2(73) MAM
Author: Mamber, Stephen
Place: Cambridge, Mass.
Publisher: MIT Press
PubDate: [1974]
PhysDes: vi, 288 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: CINEMA VERITE; CINEMA-DIRECT; BRANDO, MARLON; DREW, ROBERT; LEACOCK, RICHARD; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; PENNEBAKER, D. A.; WISEMAN, FREDERICK; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; FONDA, JANE; VERTOV, DZIGA; ZAVATTINI, CESARE; ROUQUIER, GEORGES; RENOIR, JEAN; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED; CRISIS (US, James Lipscomb, Hope Ryden, Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker, 1963); DON'T LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967); HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, A (US, Joyce Chopra/Richard Leacock, 1963); HIGH SCHOOL (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1969); JANE (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1962); MEET MARLON BRANDO (US, Albert Maysles & David Maysles, 1966); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)
Summary: A study of the Cinema verite approach to film making, primarily made up of examinations of particular films. "The relationship between camera and subject, problems of structure, and distinctive characteristics of each filmmaker's approach are also discussed.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [276]-283
ISBN: 0262130920
LON: 508990
Contents: Cinema verite: definitions and background -- Drew Associates -- Direct cinema and crisis structure -- The Maysles brothers -- D. A. Pennebaker -- Richard Leacock -- Frederick Wiseman -- Conclusion

Call No: 761.2(73) MAM COPY 2
Author: Mamber, Stephen
Source: UK
Place: Cambridge, MA
Publisher: MIT Press
PubDate: c1974
PhysDes: vi, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: CINEMA VERITE; CINEMA-DIRECT; BRANDO, MARLON; FONDA, JANE; DREW, ROBERT; LEACOCK, RICHARD; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; PENNEBAKER, D. A.; WISEMAN, FREDERICK; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; VERTOV, DZIGA; ZAVATTINI, CESARE; ROUQUIER, GEORGES; RENOIR, JEAN; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED; CRISIS (US, James Lipscomb, Hope Ryden, Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker, 1963); DON'T LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967); HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, A (US, Joyce Chopra/Richard Leacock, 1963); HIGH SCHOOL (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1969); JANE (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1962); MEET MARLON BRANDO (US, Albert Maysles & David Maysles, 1966); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)
Summary: A study of the Cinema verite approach to film making, primarily made up of examinations of particular films. "The relationship between camera and subject, problems of structure, and distinctive characteristics of each filmmaker's approach are also discussed.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [276]-283
ISBN: 0262130920
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 81ROU STO
Author: Stoller, Paul
Place: Chicago
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: xvii, 247 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Subject: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; ROUCH, JEAN
Notes: "Bibliography of Jean Rouch": p. 223-225; "Filmography of Jean Rouch": p. 227-233; Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-243) and index
ISBN: 0226775461 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226775488 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 8496610

Call No: 761 WIN
Author: Winston, Brian
CorpAuthor: British Film Institute
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: 301 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARIES; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; THEORY; CINEMA VERITE; CINEMA-DIRECT; GRIERSON, JOHN; WISEMAN, FREDERICK; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI
Summary: "Recent technological developments in the field of image manipulation mea that the 'evidence' of the photograph is no longer incontrovertible. The camera, it seems, can lie. Alterations may noe be made to still or moving images which materially change their meaning yet which are undetectable. What does this do to the status of the documentary film? In this informed and lively book Brian Winston rewrites the history of the documentary to take account of technological change. He subjects the great figures of the past - Grierson, Flaherty, Dziga-Verov - to a searcing critique, and examines both the principles and practice of the major movements of documentary, such as cinema verite. He offers his own definition of the essential difference between fiction film and documentary, and identifies the fundamentally ethical basis of any film practice which attempts to capture the 'truth'" -- Taken from the back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-294) and index
ISBN: 0851704638 (cased); 0851704646 (pbk)
LON: 11552015
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Call No: 81PEN BEA
Author: Beattie, Keith (ed.); Griffiths, Trent (ed.)
Source: US
Place: Jackson [Mississippi]
Publisher: University of Mississippi
PubDate: c2014
PhysDes: xxxii, 217pages ; 24 cm
Series: Conversations with filmmakers
Subject: CINEMA VERITE; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; PENNEBAKER, D. A.; HEGEDUS, CHRIS; DONT LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967); MONTEREY POP (US, D. A. Pennebaker, 1968)
Summary: "This wide-ranging and insightful collection of interviews with D.A.Pennebaker (b.1925) spans the prolific career of this pioneer of observational cinema. From the 1950s to the present day, Pennebaker has made documentary films that have revealed the world of politics, celebrity culture, and the music industry. " -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes index; Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
ISBN: 9781628462029
Donation: Donated by Senses of Cinema
Contents: -- the filmmaking of D.A. Pennebaker -- chronology -- filmography -- D.A. Pennebaker / G. Roy Levin (1970) -- Don't look back and Monterey pop: Donn Alan Pennebaker / Alan Rosenthal (1971) -- Donn looks back: cinema verite with Dylan, Bowie / Merrill Shindler (1976) -- Speaking of Samuel / Martyn Auty (1982) -- D. A. Pennebaker on the filming of Don't look back / Barbara Hogenson (1984) -- 1966 and all that: D. A. Pennebaker, filmmaker / Shelly Livson (1984) -- Looking back: D. A. Pennebaker interviewed by John Bauldie / John Bauldie (1986) -- Behind the public face of power: Martha Ansara interviews Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker / Martha Ansara (1994) -- The burning question: D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus / Kevin Macdonald and Mark Cousins (1996) -- Documentary film pioneer D. A. Pennebaker looks back and forward / Marc Savlov (1998)-- I film while leaping from my chair: D. A. Pennebaker on Bob Dylan, John Lennon, cinema verite, and Mary Poppins / David Dalton (1999) -- D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus: engineering nonfiction cinema / Liz Stubbs (2002) -- D.A. Pennebaker: at eighty, looking back and ahead / David D'arcy ( 2005) -- D.A. Pennebaker looks back / Carol Caffin (2007) -- Interview with D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus / John Berra (2008) -- Ninety years of cinematic confections: an interview with Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker / Dan Lybarger (2010) -- D.A. Pennebaker: interview / Sam Adams (2011) -- D. A. Pennebaker / Harvey Kubernik (2012) -- additional resources -- index --

Call No: 761 BAR
Author: Barnouw, Erik, 1908
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: vi, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS; COMPILATION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. US; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; CINEMA VERITE; NAZIS IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. FRANCE; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; GPO FILM UNIT; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; GRIERSON, JOHN; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MURROW, EDWARD R.; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WRIGHT, BASIL; SUCKSDORFF, ARNE; MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); AMERICAN DREAM (US, Barbara Kopple, 1990); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Basil Wright & Harry Watt, 1936); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); SONG OF CEYLON, THE (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44)
Summary: Barnouw traces the documentary from its beginning at the dawn of film history - the work of the Lumiere brothers - to the remarkable group of films that have portrayed the Vietnam war. Films are placed within their broader social perspective, and Barnouw traces filmmaking developments in a single country to global uptake. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of governments and large corporations on the content of films. The book covers television documentary, direct cinema, cinema verite as well as film-makers dealing with exploration, animals, aspects of war, human behaviour, social problems and propaganda. Such diverse film-makers as Flaherty, Vertov, Grierson, Ivens, Lorentz, Jennings, Sucksdorff, Rouch, Leacock, and the Maysles are included.
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [297]-311
ISBN: 0195018354 : $10.95
LON: 74079618; 462942

Call No: 761 BAR
Author: Barnouw, Erik, 1908
Edition: 2nd rev. ed
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: 400 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; COMPILATION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USA; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; NAZIS IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. FRANCE; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; GPO FILM UNIT; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; Grierson, John; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MURROW, EDWARD R.; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WRIGHT, BASIL; SUCKSDORFF, ARNE; MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); AMERICAN DREAM (US, Barbara Kopple, 1990); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Basil Wright & Harry Watt, 1936); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); SONG OF CEYLON (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44)
Summary: This is the second revised edition of Documentary: A History of the Non-fiction Film. Barnouw traces the documentary from its beginning at the dawn of film history - the work of the Lumiere brothers - to the remarkable group of films that have portrayed the Vietnam war. Films are placed within their broader social perspective, and Barnouw traces filmmaking developments in a single country to global uptake. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of governments and large corporations on the content of films. The book covers television documentary, direct cinema, cinema verite as well as film-makers dealing with exploration, animals, aspects of war, human behaviour, social problems and propaganda. Such diverse film-makers as Flaherty, Vertov, Grierson, Ivens, Lorentz, Jennings, Sucksdorff, Rouch, Leacock, and the Maysles are included.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-375) and index
ISBN: 0195078985 (pbk. : acid-free paper) : $10.95
LON: 9430204

Call No: 761 BAR
Author: Barnouw, Eric
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: 332 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; COMPILATION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USA; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; NAZIS IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. FRANCE; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; GPO FILM UNIT; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; Grierson, John; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MURROW, EDWARD R.; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WRIGHT, BASIL; SUCKSDORFF, ARNE; MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); AMERICAN DREAM (US, Barbara Kopple, 1990); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Basil Wright & Harry Watt, 1936); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); SONG OF CEYLON, THE (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44)
Summary: Barnouw traces the documentary from its beginning at the dawn of film history - the work of the Lumiere brothers - to the remarkable group of films that have portrayed the Vietnam war. Films are placed within their broader social perspective, and Barnouw traces filmmaking developments in a single country to global uptake. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of governments and large corporations on the content of films. The book covers television documentary, direct cinema, cinema verite as well as film-makers dealing with exploration, animals, aspects of war, human behaviour, social problems and propaganda. Such diverse film-makers as Flaherty, Vertov, Grierson, Ivens, Lorentz, Jennings, Sucksdorff, Rouch, Leacock, and the Maysles are included.
ISBN: 0195018354
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
Contents: -- 1: glimpse of wonders -- 2: images at work -- 3: sound and fury -- 4: clouded lens -- sharp focus -- afterword -- source notes -- bibliography -- index --

Call No: 761 DOC
Author: Corner, John (ed.)
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Edward Arnold
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: 178 p. : 22 cm
Series: Stratford-upon-Avon Studies; Second series
Subject: MEDIA; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; DIARY FOR TIMOTHY, A (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1946); LISTEN TO BRITAIN (UK, Humphrey Jennings/Stewart McAllister, 1942); ROSES IN DECEMBER (US, Ana Carrigan and Bernard Stone, 1982); WORDS FOR BATTLE (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1941)
Summary: "The studies in this book investigate documentary forms and methods as they have developed in film, radio and television, placing emphasis on the use of documentary approaches within the context of a national media system. They link together political and social factors with matters of 'documentary language', addressing the particular questions of representational realism and of public communication which documentaries so sharply raise but which are relevant to a far wider range of mass media activities. The specially commissioned essays in this volume offer a stimulating exploration of a lively and powerful mode; several indeed open up entirely new areas of media analysis. All are likely to offer the reader fresh insights." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Mass media. Documentaries (BNB/PRECIS); Includes bibliographical references and index; Includes index
ISBN: 071316493X
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
Contents: -- select bibliography -- preface -- 1: 'the stuff of radio': developments in radio features and documentaries before the war : Paddy Scannell -- 2: authorship in documentary : sociology as an art form in mass observation : David Chaney and Michael Pickering -- 3: the documentary aesthetics of Humphrey Jennings : Bjorn Sorenssen -- 4: the origin of British television documentary: the BBC 1946-55 : Elaine Bell -- 5: the agnostic narratives of television science : Roger Silverstone -- 6: questions of magnitude : Bill Nichols -- 7: seeing is believing: the ideology of naturalism : Richard Collins -- 8: documentary meanings and the discourse of interpretation : John Corner and Kay Richardson -- 9: notes on the ascent of a ficticious mountain : Dai Vaughan -- notes on contributors -- index --

Call No: 761 DOC
Author: Winston, Brian
CorpAuthor: British Film Institute
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2013
PhysDes: 416 pages ; 25 cm
Subject: AFRICA; ART CINEMA; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; BLACK CINEMA; BRAZIL; CINEMA-DIRECT; CINEMA VERITE; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; HISTORY ON TV; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; ISRAEL; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; PALESTINE; POLITICAL FILMS; RACE AND THE CINEMA; REVOLUTIONARY THEMES IN FILMS; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; REALITY TV; GRIERSON, JOHN; MOORE, MICHAEL; VERTOV, DZIGA; AFRICA RISING (US, Paula Heredia, 2009); AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER (UK, Nick Bloomfield & Joan Churchill, 2003); CHRONIQUE D' UN ETE (FR, Jean Rouch/Edgar Morin, 1961); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922)
Summary: Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never been more popular than it is today. Edited by one of the leading British authorities in the field, The Documentary Film Book is an essential guide to current thinking on documentary film. In a series of fascinating essays, key international experts discuss the theory of documentary, outline current understandings of its history (from pre-Flaherty to the post-Griersonian world of digital 'i-Docs'), survey documentary production (from Africa to Europe, and from the Americas to Asia), consider documentaries by marginalised minority communities, and assess its contribution to other disciplines and arts. Brought together here in one volume, these scholars offer compelling evidence as to why, over the last few decades, documentary has come to the centre of screen studies. -- BOOK BLURB
ISBN: 9781844573417
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword: Why Documentaries Matter -- Introduction: The Filmed Documentary --; PART I: DOCUMENTARY VALUES -- The Question of Evidence, the Power of Rhetoric and Documentary Film: Bill Nichols -- 'I'll Believe It When I Trust the Source': Documentary Images and Visual Evidence: Carl Plantinga -- 'The Performance Documentary': The Performing Film-Maker, the Acting Subject: Stella Bruzzi -- On Truth, Objectivity and Partisanship: The Case of Michael Moore: Douglas Kellner -- CGI and the End of Photography as Evidence: Taylor Downing -- Drawn From Life: The Animated Documentary: Andy Glynne -- Dramadoc? Docudrama? The Limits and Protocols of a Televisual Form: Derek Paget -- Ambiguous Audiences: Annette Hill -- Life As Narrativised: Brian Winston -- The Dance of Documentary Ethics: Pratap Rughani -- Deaths, Transfigurations and the Future: John Corner --; PART II: DOCUMENTARY PARADIGMS -- Problems in Historiography: The Documentary Tradition Before Nanook of the North: Charles Musser -- John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement: Ian Aitken -- Challenges For Change: Canada's National Film Board: Thomas Waugh and Ezra Winton -- Grierson's Legacies: Australia and New Zealand: Deane Williams -- New Deal Documentary and the North Atlantic Welfare State: Zoe Druick and Jonathan Kahana -- The Triumph of Observationalism: Direct Cinema in the USA: Dave Saunders -- Russian and Soviet Documentary: From Vertov to Sokurov: Ian Christie -- The Radical Tradition in Documentary Film-making, 1920s–50s: Bert Hogenkamp -- Le Groupe des trente: The Poetic Tradition: Elena Von Kassel Siambani -- Cinéma Vérité: Vertov Revisited: Genevieve Van Cauwenberge -- Beyond Sobriety: Documentary Diversions: Craig Hight --; PART III: DOCUMENTARY HORIZONS -- Eastwards: Abe Mark Nornes -- Africa N.: Frank Ukadike -- Images From the South: Contemporary Documentary in Argentina and Brazil: Ana Amado and Maria Dora Mourao -- 'Roadblock' Films, 'Children's Resistance' Films and 'Blood Relations' Films: Israeli and Palestinian Documentary Post-Intifada: Il Raya Morag -- Sacred, Mundane and Absurd Revelations of the Everyday – Poetic Vérité in the Eastern European Tradition; Susanna Helke --; PART IV: DOCUMENTARY VOICES -- First-Person Political: Alisa Lebow -- Feminist Documentaries: Finding, Seeing and Using Them: Julia Lesage -- Pioneers of Black Documentary Film: Pearl Bowser -- LGTBs' Documentary Identity: Christopher Pullen -- Docusoaps: The Ordinary Voice as Popular Entertainment: Richard Kilborn -- Reality TV: A Sign of the Times?: Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn --; PART V: DOCUMENTARY DISCIPLINES -- Anthropology: The Evolution of Ethnographic Film: Paul Henley -- Science, Society and Documentary: Tim Boon -- History Documentaries for Television: Ann Gray -- Music, Documentary, Music Documentary: Michael Chanan -- Art, Documentary as Art; Michael Renov --; PART VI: DOCUMENTARY FUTURES -- Documentary as Open Space: Helen de Michiel and Patricia R. Zimmermann -- 'This Great Mapping of Ourselves': New Documentary Forms Online: John Dovey and Mandy Rose -- New Platforms for 'Docmedia': 'Varient of a Manifesto': Peter Wintonick --; Afterword: The Unchanging Question: Brian Winston -- Index

Call No: 761 ROT
Author: Rothman, William
Place: Cambridge, Eng. New York
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 1997
PhysDes: xv, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Cambridge studies in film
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; NON-FICTION FILMS; BUNUEL, LUIS; LEACOCK, RICHARD; RESNAIS, ALAIN; ROUCH, JEAN; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); HURDES, LAS (SP, Luis Bunuel, 1933); NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955); NIGHT AND FOG (FR, Alain Resnais, 1995); CHRONIQUE D' UN ETE (FR, Jean Rouch/Edgar Morin, 1961); HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, A (US, Joyce Chopra/Richard Leacock, 1963); DONT LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967); LAND WITHOUT BREAD (SP, Luis Bunuel, 1933)
Summary: "Documentary Film Classics" offers close readings of a number of major documentaries, including Nanook of the North, Land without Bread, Night and Fog, Chronicle of a Summer, A Happy Mother's Day, and Don't Look Back. William Rothman analyzes the philosophical and historical issues and themes implicit in these works. Designed to guide film students through the 'texts' of films that span the history of the documentary film movement, his readings also focus on the achievements of these works as films per se. This book is both an original contribution to the field of film studies and also suitable for use as a text for college level courses on documentary film and broader film history courses." -- BOOK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-213) and index
ISBN: 0521456819 (pbk); 0521450675 (hbk)
Order Received: 1997
LON: 96014029; 12242459
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Call No: 761 BEA
Author: Beattie, Keith
Source: UK
Place: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 276 p ; 21cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILM; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; CINEMA VERITE; CINEMA-DIRECT; JOURNALISTS, FILM; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV; REALITY TV; TABLOID JOURNALISM; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA; NATIONAL INDIGENOUS DOCUMENTARY FUND; NBC TELEVISION NETWORK; PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE; NETWORK TEN; VIDEODISCS; GRANADA; IMAX; INDEPENDENT TELEVISION COMMISSION; INTERACTIVE TV; MUSIC TELEVISION; TELEVISION JOURNALISTS; BUERK, MICHEAL; CAVADINI, ALESSANDRO; DE ANTONIO, EMILE; DREW, ROBERT; DYLAN, BOB; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; GRIERSON, JOHN; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT; MAYSLES, DAVID; MCELWEE, ROSS; MOORE, MICHAEL; MORIN, EDGAR; O'ROURKE, DENNIS; PENNEBAKER, D. A.; PILGER, JOHN; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; TAJIRI, REA; VERTOV, DZIGA; ATOMIC CAFE, THE (US, Kevin Rafferty & Jane Loader & Pierce Rafferty, 1982); CHEQUER-BOARD [TV] (AT, 1969-1975); FOUR CORNERS [TV] (AT, 1961-); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); BERLIN DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSTADT (G, Walter Ruttman, 1927); BIG BROTHER [TV] (AT, 2001); BIGGIE AND TUPAC (US, Nick Broomfield, 2001); BILL, THE [TV] (UK, 1984-); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE (US/CA, Michael Moore, 2002); BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (GG/US, Wim Wenders, 1999); CAMBODIA: YEAR ZERO (AT, John Pilger, 1989); CANE TOADS : AN UNNATURAL HISTORY (AT, Mark Lewis, 1987); CANNIBAL TOURS (AT, Dennis O' Rourke, 1987); CATHY COME HOME (UK, Ken Loach, 1966); CHRONIQUE D' UN ETE (FR, Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin, 1961); COPS AND ROBBERSONS (US, Michael Ritchie, 1994); CROCODILE DUNDEE (AT, Peter Faiman, 1986); CUNNAMULLA (AT, Dennis O'Rourke, 2000); DEATH OF A PRINCESS [TV] (UK/US/NZ/AT/NE, Antony Thomas, 1980); DISMISSAL, THE [TV] (AT, George T. Miller & others, 1983); DON'T LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967); GOOD WOMAN OF BANGKOK, THE (AT, Dennis O'Rourke, 1991); LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER, THE (US, Connie Field, 1980); MABO: LIFE OF AN ISLAND MAN (AT, Trevor Graham, 1997); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); MONTEREY POP (US, D. A. Pennebaker, 1968); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); POLICE STATE (AT, Chris Noonan, 1989); SYLVANIA WATERS [TV] (AT, Brian Hill & Kate Woods, 1993); WALKING WITH DINOSAURS[TV] (UK, 1999); WAR GAME, THE (UK, Peter Watkins, 1966)
Summary: Documentary Screens is a comprehensive and critical examination of the formal features and histories of central categories of documentary film and television. Among the categories examined are autobiographical, indigenous and ethnographic documentary, compilation films, direct cinema and cinema verite and television documentary journalism. The book also considers recent so called popular factual entertainment and the future of documentary film, television and new media. [Taken from back cover].
ISBN: 033374117X
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Call No: 70 JAC
Author: Jacobs, Lewis, comp
Place: New York
Publisher: Hopkinson and Blake
PubDate: [c1969]
PhysDes: 453 p. illus. 25 cm
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD; COLORIZATION; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; GERMANY; ANIMATED FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; AUTEUR THEORY; NOUVELLE VAGUE; MUSIC IN FILMS; NEOREALISM; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; MELIES, GEORGES; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; CLAIR, RENE; FORD, JOHN; PORTER, EDWIN S.; LESTER, RICHARD; DISNEY, WALT; BERGMAN, INGMAR; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; SARRIS, ANDREW; KAEL, PAULINE; KUROSAWA AKIRA; RESNAIS, ALAIN; FELLINI, FEDERICO; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BASS, SAUL; MEKAS, JONAS; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928)
Notes: Bibliography: p. 438-439
LON: 5011
ID2: 291

Call No: 62 ARM
Author: Armes, Roy
Place: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Publisher: Penguin
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: 254 p. ; 18 cm
Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; NEOREALISM; EXPRESSIONISM; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; UNDERGROUND FILMS; ANIMATION; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; STUDIO SYSTEM; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; STARS; AUTHORSHIP; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; WESTERNS; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; MELIES, GEORGES; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; VERTOV, DZIGA; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; RENOIR, JEAN; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; BUNUEL, LUIS; RESNAIS, ALAIN; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; ANGER, KENNETH; LOACH, KENNETH; CHAPLIN, CHARLES
Summary: Explores the history of cinema by looking at three broad areas - Film Realism, Film Illusion, and Film Modernism, and describes within these areas the most important film-makers, directors and companies within the film industry.
Notes: contains index; contains bibliography with descriptions and recommendations for the books sourced.
ISBN: 0140217010
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Call No: 62 DEN
Author: DeNitto, Dennis,
Place: New York
Publisher: Harper & Row
PubDate: c1985
PhysDes: xv, 544 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: THEORY; CRITICISM; EDITING; HISTORY OF CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; EXPRESSIONISM; MONTAGE; NEOREALISM; NOUVELLE VAGUE; COMEDIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; PROPAGANDA FILMS; WESTERNS; MUSICALS; VARIETE (G, E.A. Dupont, 1925); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); PRODUCERS, THE (US, Mel Brooks, 1967); TITICUT FOLLIES (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1967); BROKEN BLOSSOMS (US, David Wark Griffith, 1919); OKTIABR [OCTOBER] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1928); LADRI DI BICICLETTE (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1949); QUATRE CENTS COUPS, LES (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1959); MAN OF ARAN (UK, Robert Flaherty, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955); STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939); SHANE (US, George Stevens, 1953); WILD BUNCH, THE (US, Sam Peckinpah, 1969); TOP HAT (US, Mark Sandrich, 1935); SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (US, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952); WEST SIDE STORY (US, Robert Wise, 1961); SOMMARNATTENS LEENDE (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1956)
Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 493-503
ISBN: 0060416297 (pbk.)
Order Received: 2000
Order Type: Donation
LON: 3664711

Call No: 761 MAC
Author: Macdonald, Kevin, 1967-; Cousins, Mark
Place: London
Publisher: Faber and Faber
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: xii, 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; JEWS IN FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; CINEMA-DIRECT; GENOCIDE IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; PROPAGANDA FILMS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; WAR IN FILMS; VERTOV, DZIGA; ROUCH, JEAN; IMAMURA, SHOHEI; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF; MALLE, LOUIS; MARKER, CHRIS; OPHULS, MARCEL; Grierson, John; HUSTON, JOHN; ANDERSON, LINDSAY; BUNUEL, LUIS; ALVAREZ, SANTIAGO; ANTONIO, EMILE DE; BALAZS, BELA; BLUE, JAMES; BROOMFIELD, NICK; CAVALCANTI, ALBERTO; COLINA, JOSE DE LA; COOPER, MERIAN C.; DIETRICH, MARLENE; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; IVENS, JORIS; IWASAKI, AKIRA; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; KAUL, MANI; LANZMANN, CLAUDE; LEACOCK, RICHARD; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MORRIS, ERROL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; SCHELL, MAXIMILIAN; SHUB, ESTHER; TSUCHIMOTO, NORIAKI; WISEMAN, FREDERICK; WRIGHT, BASIL; TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WITH LAWRENCE IN ARABIA (US, Lowell Thomas, 1919); INDE FANTOME, L' (FR, Louis Malle, 1968); LET THERE BE LIGHT (US, John Huston, 1946); MARLENE (GW, Maximilian Schell, 1984); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Basil Wright & Harry Watt, 1936); REGEN (NE, Joris Ivens, 1929); SONG OF CEYLON (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); SPANISH EARTH, THE (US, Joris Ivens, 1937); THIN BLUE LINE, THE (US, Errol Morris, 1988); SANS SOLEIL (FR, Chris Marker, 1983); SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985); A PROPOS DE NICE (FR, Jean Vigo, 1930); CRUMB (US, Terry Zwigoff, 1994); HOUSING PROBLEMS (UK, Edgar Anstey & Arthur Elton, 1935); YUKI YUKITE SHINGUN (JA, Kazuo Hara, 1987); VERITES ET MENSONGES (FR/IR, Orson Welles, 1975[prod.1973]); FIRST LOVE (US, Joan Darling, 1977); GIMME SHELTER (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1970); HOOP DREAMS (US, Steve James, 1994); LAS HURDES (SP, Luis Bunuel, 1932)
Summary: Imagining Reality takes the reader on a tour of the evolution of documentary film as an increasingly vibrant, polemical, experimental and entertaining form. It gathers a wide-ranging collection of writings by and about such groundbreaking documentary-makers as Vertov, Flaherty, Marcel Ophuls, Chris Marker, Kieslowski, Claude Lanzmann, and Nick Broomfield. The story is carried up to date by attention to the success documentaries have had among mainstream movie audiences in recent years, including Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, The Buena Vista Social Club, Spellbound, Capturing The Friedmans, Être Et Avoir, and The Fog Of War. --TAKEN FROM PUBLISHER'S SITE
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Faber book of the documentary
ISBN: 0571177239
LON: 13068333
Contents: Part 1. -- 1.The Kingdom of Shadows -- 2. Going to Extremes -- 3. Kino Eyes and Agit Trains -- 4. Documentary and the Avante Guarde -- Part 2. -- 5. The British Movement -- 6. Battling for minds -- 7. Aspects of Asia -- Part 3. -- 8. The Essayists -- 9. The Grain of Truth -- Part 4. -- 10. The Cinema of Social Concern -- 11. Diversity -- 12. The Burning Question
ID2: 47

Author: Gardner, Geoffrey
PhysDes: Review
Subject: JUTRA, CLAUDE; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. CANADA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; EDUCATION, FILM. CANADA
Summary: Review of Claude Jutra's feature documentary "Knowing to Learn", about modern education.

Author: Gardner, Geoffrey
PhysDes: Article Filmography
Subject: DUNLOP, IAN; DIRECTORS. AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIA IN FILMS; AUSTRALIA; COMMONWEALTH FILM UNIT; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. AUSTRALIA; ROUCH, JEAN; CHRONIQUE D' UN ETE (FR, Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin, 1961); CINEMA VERITE
Summary: Australian ethnographic filmmaker Ian Dunlop describes his experience making his film "Desert People" with the Commonwealth Film Unit. Includes a detailed index of Dunlop's completed films.

Author: Hosford, Peter
PhysDes: Review
Subject: MEDIUM COOL (US, Haskell Wexler, 1969); WEXLER, HASKELL; CINEMA VERITE; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; REALISM IN FILMS
Summary: Review of Haskell Wexler's realist film "Medium Cool", noting his use of cinema verite to convey much of the story in the form of a newsreel.

Call No: 62(082) MOV v.2
Author: Nichols, Bill (ed.)
Source: US/UK
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: c1985
PhysDes: xii, 753 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: CRITICISM; GENRES; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; STRUCTURALISM; SEMIOLOGY; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; SADISM / MASOCHISM IN FILMS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; BAZIN, ANDRE; WALSH, RAOUL; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; DAUGHTER RITE (US, Michelle Citron, 1979); JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (BE/FR, Chantal Akerman, 1975); SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956); MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1945); STAGECOACH (US, John Ford, 1939)
Summary: "The original Movies and Methods volume (1976) captured the dynamic evolution of film theory and criticism into an important new discipline, incorporating methods from structuralism, semiotics, and feminist thought. Now there is again ferment in the field. Movies and Methods, Volume II, captures the developments that have given history and genre studies imaginative new models and indicates how feminist, structuralist, and psychoanalytic approaches to film have achieved fresh, valuable insights." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: This is volume II
ISBN: 0520054091
Contents: -- historical criticism -- genre criticism -- feminist criticism -- structuralist semiotics -- psychoanalytic semiotics -- countercurrents --

Call No: 761 BRU
Author: Bruzzi, Stella, 1962
Place: London New York
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: CINEMA VERITE; DOCUMENTARIES; GENOCIDE IN FILMS; KENNEDY [JOHN FITZGERALD] IN FILMS; SOAP OPERAS; ANTONIO, EMILE DE; BROOMFIELD, NICK; DINEEN, MOLLY; LANZMANN, CLAUDE; MARKER, CHRIS; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; ATOMIC CAFE, THE (US, Kevin Rafferty & Jane Loader & Pierce Rafferty, 1982); CRUISE, THE (US, Bennet Miller, 1998); SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
Summary: "New Documentary: A Critical Introduction provides a contemporary look at documentary and fresh and challenging ways of theorising the non-fiction film. This engaging textbook brings the study of documentary up to date by examining critical issues of performance, gender, authorship and spectatorship and suggests how these are important to an understanding of documentary cinema. Areas addressed include: key texts such as Zapruder's film of Kennedy's Assassination, Shoah, The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife and the Atomic Cafe; the works of filmmakers such as Emile de Antonio, Chris Marker, Nicholas Barker, Nick Broomfield, Molly Dineen and Patrick Kieller; an analysis of the key aspects of documentary such as the use of voice-over and archive, American cinema verite, docusoaps and political image-making; an innovative examination of the importance of performance to documentary; interviews with contemporary documentary filmmakers." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
ISBN: 0415182956 (alk. paper); 0415182964 (pbk. : alk paper)
LON: 21418546

Call No: 761.2 NOT
Author: Wyver, John
CorpAuthor: Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)
Place: [London]
Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Arts/BFI Publishing
PubDate: c1982
PhysDes: iv, 34 p. ; 30 cm
Subject: CINEMA VERITE; STEWART, CHARLES; GRAEF, ROGER
Notes: "A booklet to accompany a season of films at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in February and March 1982."; Includes bibliographies
LON: 5117443

Call No: 761 CHA
Author: Chanan, Michael
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: viii, 280 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Subject: ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; CINEMA-DIRECT; COMMENTARY; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; FREE CINEMA; MONTAGE; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA; POLITICAL FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS IN FILMS; TRUTH IN FILMS; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; GRIERSON, JOHN; IVENS, JORIS; ROUCH, JEAN; VERTOV, DZIGA; BERLIN DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSTADT (G, Walter Ruttman, 1927); BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (G, Walter Ruttman, 1927); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922)
Summary: "Chanan traces the history of the documentary from the first Lumiere films to Grierson and his contemporaries, though to Free Cinema, Cinema verite and Direct Cinema, up to the current resurgence of documentary with high profile films such as those of Michael Moore. Chanan's thematic approach takes in topics such as the documentary before documentary, how documentary film language works, the veracity of the image, the construction of the soundtrack, the migration of documentary to television, political documentary, censorship, first-person film making, and the relation of the archives to history and memory. Drawing on examples of documentary cinema in Japan, Iran, and Latin America as well as Europe and the USA, Chanan argues that documentary provides a crucial public space in which ideas are debated, opinion is formed and those in authority are held to account. " - BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781844572267
Contents: Part 1: Mapping the field -- 1:The new documentary wave -- 2: The documentary field -- 3: Rules of evidence -- Part 2: Historical moments -- 4: Documentary before documentary -- 5: Discovery of space -- 6: The documented point of view -- 7: Soundscapes -- 8: Public address -- 9:Essays and endeavours -- 10:Truth games -- Part 3: Contemporary Themes -- 11:Different histories -- 12: Living history -- 13: The space of the subject -- 14: After Verite -- 15: History and memory -- Index

Call No: 761 REN
Author: Renov, Michael
Place: Minneapolis, MN
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: xxiv, 286 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Series: Visible evididence: volume 16
Subject: DOCUMENTARIES; CINEMA VERITE; BARTHES, ROLAND; BRECHT, BERTHOLD; DERRIDA, JACQUES; FOUCAULT, MICHEL; FREUD, SIGMUND; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; IVENS, JORIS; LACAN, JACQUES; MCLUHAN, MARSHALL; MEKAS, JONAS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WEXLER, HASKELL; MEDIUM COOL (US, Haskell Wexler, 1969); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Summary: "Michael Renov focuses on how documentary filmmaking has become an important means for both examining and constructing selfhood. Renov analyzes films in which the subjectivity of the filmmaker is expressly defined, from Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool to Jonas Mekas's Lost, Lost, Lost, and contemplates such nontraditional modes of autobiographical practice as the essay film, the video confession, and the personal Web page." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: Essays either previously published or previously presented at various conferences. Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780816634415
Donation: Adrian Miles
Contents: Part 1: Social subjectivity -- 1: Early newsreel : the construction of a political imaginary for the new left -- 2. The "real" in fiction : Brecht, Medium cool, and the refusal of incorporation -- 3. Warring images : stereotype and American representations of the Japanese, 1941-1991 -- 4. Lost, lost, lost : Mekas as essayist -- Part 2: The subject in theory -- 5. Charged vision : the place of desire in documentary film theory -- 6. The subject in history : the new autobiography in film and video -- 7. Filling up the hole in the real : death and mourning in contemporary documentary film and video -- 8. Documentary disavowals and the digital -- 9. Technology and ethnographic dialogue -- 10. The address to the other : ethical discourse in Everything's for you -- Part three: modes of subjectivity -- 11. New subjectivities : documentary and self-representation in the post-verite age -- 12. The electronic essay -- 13. Video confessions -- 14. Domestic ethnography and the construction of the "other" self. -- 15. The end of autobiography or new beginnings? (or, everything, you never knew you would know about someone you will probably never meet).

Call No: 761 RAB
Author: Rabinowitz, Paula
Place: London New York
Publisher: Verso
PubDate: 1994
PhysDes: xi, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: CINEMA VERITE; CLASS AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; MASCULINITY IN FILMS; NATIONALISM AND THE CINEMA; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; VOYEURISM AND THE CINEMA; BENJAMIN, WALTER; FREUD, SIGMUND; FAR FROM POLAND (US, Jill Godmilow, 1984)
Summary: "They must be represented examines documentary in print, photography, television and film from the 1930s through the 1980s, using the lens of recent feminist film theory as well as scholarship on race, class and gender emerging from the new interdisciplinary approach of American cultural studies. Paula Rabinowitz discusses the ways in which these four media shaped truth-claims and political agency over the decades: in the 1930s about poverty, labor and popular culture during the depression; in the 1960s, about the Vietnam War, racism, work and the counterculture; and in the 1980s, about feminist and gay critiques of gender, history, narrative and cinema...Rabinowitz argues that the gendering ov vision that occurs when narratives conform to conventional genres profoundly affects the relation of documentarian to subject. She goes on to define this gendering of vision in documentary as an ethnographic process. Ultimately, this polemical study challenges the construction of the spectato in psychoanalytic film theory, and articulates a new model for theorizing power relations in culture and history." -- taken from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-251) and index
ISBN: 1859849253; 1859840256 (pbk.)
LON: bnc85984925; 11201643
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Author: Gardner, Geoffrey
PhysDes: Review
Subject: MINGOZZI, GIANFRANCO; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. ITALY; CINEMA VERITE
Summary: Review of the cinema verite technqiue used in the first feature by Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Mingozzi.

Call No: 761.2 ISS
Author: Issari, M. Ali (Mohammad Ali); Paul, Doris A. (Doris Atkinson) joint author
Place: Metuchen, N.J.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
PubDate: 1979
PhysDes: vi, 208 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: CINEMA VERITE; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARIES; NOUVELLE VAGUE; VERTOV, DZIGA; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; ROUCH, JEAN; LEACOCK, RICHARD; RUSPOLI, MARIO; ROZIER, JACQUES; MARKER, CHRIS; MAYSLES, ALBERT; JERSEY, WILLIAM C.
Notes: Includes index; Filmography: p. 179-185; Bibliography: p. 186-198
ISBN: 0810812533
LON: 79020110; 1491302 1830040