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Add sound to your movies : a practical guide for the amateur film maker / Mike Kent London: Macmillan, 1979.
Call No: 244.7(036) KENAuthor: Kent, Mike Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: MacmillanPubDate: 1979PhysDes: xv, 235 p. : ill ; 23 cmSubject: SOUND ; SOUND RECORDING ; SOUND TRACKS ; SOUND EDITING ; COMMENTARY Summary: Add Sound to Your Movies covers almost every aspect of the subject, from recording techniques and easy 'music-and-voice-over' to advanced track laying. [Taken from back cover.]ISBN: 0333271262Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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Crafting truth : documentary form and meaning / by Louise Spence and Vinicius Navarro New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, c2011.
Call No: 761 SPEAuthor: Spence, Louise ; Navarro, Vinicius Source: US/UKPlace: New Brunswick, NJPublisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: c2011PhysDes: x, 281 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: AESTHETICS ; AUTHORSHIP ; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS ; CINEMATOGRAPHY ; COMMENTARY ; CONSTRUCTIVISM ; CONTINUITY ; CINEMA-DIRECT ; DOCUMENTARIES ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; EDITING ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; INTERVIEWING ; INTERVIEWS IN FILMS ; LIGHTING ; LOCATION SHOOTING ; MEMORY IN FILMS ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; NON-FICTION FILMS ; PALESTINE ; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SOUND ; SOUND EQUIPMENT ; THEORY ; TRUTH IN FILMS ; VOICE OVER ; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA ; AFRIQUE, JE TE PLUMERAI (CM/FR/G, Jean-Marie Téno, 1992) ; BERLIN DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSTADT (G, Walter Ruttman, 1927) ; CHRONIQUE D' UN ETE (FR, Jean Rouch/Edgar Morin, 1961) ; CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER (FR, Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin, 1961) ; GOKUSHITEKI EROSU: RENKA 1974 (JA, Kazuo Hara, 1974) ; FAR FROM POLAND (US, Jill Godmilow, 1984) ; HALVING THE BONES (US, Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury, 1995) ; HANDSWORTH SONGS (UK, John Akomfrah, 1986) ; HEARTS AND MINDS (US, Peter Davis, 1974) ; JOYCE AT 34 (US, Joyce Chopra, 1972) ; LESSONS OF DARKNESS (GG, Werner Herzog, 1992) ; LEKTIONEN IN FINSTERNIS (GG, Werner Herzog, 1992) ; LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER, THE (US, Connie Field, 1980) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) ; NEKAM ACHAT MISHTEY EYNAY (FR/IS, Avi Mograbi, 2005) ; NIGHT MAIL (UK, Basil Wright & Harry Watt, 1936) ; PRELUDE TO WAR (US, Frank Capra & Anatole Litvak, 1942) ; SANS SOLEIL (FR, Chris Marker, 1983) ; SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985) ; TIES THAT BIND, THE (US, Su Friedrich, 1984) ; TITICUT FOLLIES (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1967) ; WAR GAME, THE (UK, Peter Watkins, 1966) Summary: "Although nonfiction film may have captured imaginations, many viewers enter and leave theaters with a naive concept of "reality"- for them, documentaries are sources of information. But is truth or reality readily available, easily acquired, or undisputed? Or do documentaries convey illusions of reality? What aesthetic means are used to build these illusions?
Crafting truth illuminates the way these films tell their stories; how they use the camera, editing, sound, and performance; what rhetorical devices they employ; and what the theoretical, practical, and ethical implications of those choices are. Complex documentary concepts are presented through easily accessible language, images, and a discussion of a wide range of films and videos to encourage new ways of thinking about and seeing nonfiction cinema. " -- BOOK BLURBISBN: 9780813549033Contents: -- acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Authenticity -- Evidence -- Authority --
Responsibility -- Argument -- Dramatic stories, poetic and essay documentaries --
Editing -- Camerawork -- The profilmic -- Sounds / coauthored with Carl Lewis --index --ID2: 90
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Directing the documentary / Michael Rabiger Boston: Focal Press, c1987.
Call No: 761 RABAuthor: Rabiger, Michael Place: BostonPublisher: Focal PressPubDate: c1987PhysDes: xii, 316 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: DIRECTION ; PRODUCTION ; EDITING ; AESTHETICS ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; COMMENTARY ; INTERVIEWS IN FILMS ; RABIGER, MICHAEL Summary: "Directing the Documentary discusses the necessary technical basics you need to know before shooting, and describes with astonishing clarity the concepts and human processes behing the making of the film. From preproduction considerations, such as research or choosing a subject, to production and postproduction factors like shooting an interview or assembling the sound track, Directing the Documentary keeps the final goal always in sightL the creation of an effective documentary film.
Structured witha focus on specific stages of the process, this book allows flexible use through a series of project designed to teach necessary skills through action. Valuable summaries provide checkliests of immeasurable help for those involved in actual production work. The coverage is complete in the discussions of the documentary's history and development, of the issues of aesthetics and authorship, and of education and careers in documentary films." -- Taken from back cover.Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [306]-309ISBN: 0240517946 (pbk.)LON: 4791160
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Modular narratives in contemporary cinema / Allan Cameron BasingStoke [England] ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Call No: 632.2 CAMAuthor: Cameron, Allan Source: USPlace: BasingStoke [England] ; New YorkPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2008PhysDes: ix, 211 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; MOTION PICTURES - HISTORY ; COMMENTARY ; FILM NOIR ; 21 [TWENTY-ONE] GRAMS (US, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2003) ; ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (US, Michael Gondry, 2004) ; MEMENTO (US, Christopher Nolan, 2000) ; RUN LOLA RUN (G, Tom Tykwer, 199 ; PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) Summary: Alan Cameron looks at the narrarative in the film, and its relationship to the passing of time. He looks at the relationship between change and destiny, memory and history, and the representation of simultaneous events. He looks at linear and non-linear narrative, memory and forgetting, temporal anchoring and temporal drift, simultaneity and succession, and chaos and order. He looks at the relationship between the past, present and futureNotes: Bibliography: p. 196-205; Includes indexISBN: 9780230210417
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Mot a mot : Shoah, de Claude Lanzmann in Vertigo (1991) iss.6/7 p.189-198
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Narration in light : Studies in cinematic point of view / George M. Wilson Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1986.
Call No: 632.51 WILAuthor: Wilson, M. George Source: USPlace: BaltimorePublisher: The John Hopkins University PressPubDate: 1986PhysDes: x, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: POINT-OF-VIEW ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; COMMENTARY ; SPECTATORSHIP ; PERCEPTION ; MCCABE, COLIN ; YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (US, Fritz Lang, 1937) ; LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948) ; DEVIL IS A WOMAN, THE (IT, Josef von Sternberg, 1935) ; REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1955) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 209-219ISBN: 0801831377Contents: Film, perception, and point of view -- Fritz Lang's You only live once -- Coherence and transparency in classical narrative film -- Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest -- Some modes of nonomniscience -- Max Ophuls' Letter from an unknown woman -- On narrators and narration in film -- Josef von Sternberg's The devil is a woman -- Nicholas Ray's Rebel without a cause -- Morals for method
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Narration in the fiction film / David Bordwell London: Methuen, 1985.
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The politics of documentary / Michael Chanan London: British Film Institute, 2007.
Call No: 761 CHAAuthor: Chanan, Michael Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2007PhysDes: viii, 280 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmSubject: 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. " - BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781844572267Contents: 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
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Representing reality : issues and concepts in documentary / Bill Nichols Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Call No: 761NICAuthor: Nichols, Bill Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1991PhysDes: xx, 313 p. ; 24 cmSubject: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; BODY IN FILMS ; COMMENTARY ; DEATH IN FILMS ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; DOCUMENTARIES ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; GAZE IN FILMS ; IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; IDEOLOGY IN FILMS ; INTERVIEWS IN FILMS ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; REALISM IN FILMS ; TRUTH IN FILMS ; VIEWERS Summary: "Representing Reality examines the styles, strategies, and structures of documentary film. It does not offer a general survey of documentary film history so much as a conceptual overview of the form itself: what qualities of cinema underpin it, what institutional structures sustain it, what rhetorical operations inform it, what interpretive perspectives encompass it. How these questions arrange themselves into recurrent patterns and preoccupations [is] the central focus." -- Taken from preface.Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-296) and index; Filmology: p. [297]-304ISBN: 0253340608 (alk. paper); 0253206812 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 91002637; 8905992Contents: Axes of orientation: I. The domain of documentary -- II. Documentary modes of representation -- III. Axiographics: ethical space in documentary film -- Documentary: a fiction (un)like any other: IV. Telling stories with evidence and arguments -- V. Sticking to reality: rhetoric and what exceeds it -- VI. The fact of realism and the fiction of objectivity -- Documentary representation and the historical world: VII> Pornography, ethnography, and the discourses of power / Christian Hansen, Catherine Needham, Bill Nichols -- VIII. Representing the body: questions of meaning and magnitude
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Writing, directing, and producing documentary films and videos / Alan Rosenthal Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996.
Call No: 761 ROSAuthor: Rosenthal, Alan, 1936 Edition: Rev. edSource: USPlace: CarbondalePublisher: Southern Illinois University PressPubDate: 1996PhysDes: xii, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: COMMENTARY ; DOCUMENTARIES ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; EDITING ; FILMMAKING ; PRE-PRODUCTION ; PRODUCING ; PRODUCTION ; POST-PRODUCTION ; SCRIPTWRITING ; SOUND ; VOICE OVER Summary: An internationally renowned documentary filmmaker with more than sixty films to his credit, including the Peabody Award-winning Out of the Ashes, Rosenthal has written the first book to address the realities involved in the making of a documentary. Rather than dealing with theory or hardware. Rosenthal tackles the day-to-day problems from initial concept through distribution. Simply and clearly, Rosenthal explains how to write, direct, and produce the new documentary, whether film or video. He emphasizes the research and writing of the documentary, from approach and structure through interviewing, narration writing, and the complexities of editing. This emphasis makes his book uniqueNotes: Rev. ed. of: Writing, directing, and producing documentary films. c1990; Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-292) and indexISBN: 0809320134 (alk. paper); 0809320142 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 95017159; 11606022
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