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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 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; 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); PHANTOM INDIA [INDE FANTOME, L'] [TV] (FR, Louis Malle, 1969); LET THERE BE LIGHT (US, John Huston, 1946); MARLENE (GW, Maximilian Schell, 1984); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 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); 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
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Call No: 62 KRA
Author: Kracauer, Siegfried
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1965
PhysDes: xix, 364 p. ill., 20 cm.
Subject: ACTORS; ADAPTATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; THEORY; AGEE, JAMES; ALEXANDROV, GROGORIO; ANGER, KENNETH; ANSTEY, EDGAR; ARNHEIM, RUDOLF; ASTAIRE, FRED; BALAZS, BELA; BENJAMIN, WALTER; BERGMAN, INGMAR; BOGART, HUMPHREY; BRAKHAGE, STAN; BRANDO, MARLON; BUNUEL, LUIS; CAGNEY, JAMES; CAPRA, FRANK; CASTELLANI, RENATO; CAVALCANTI, ALBERTO; CHANEY, LON; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; CLAIR, RENE; CLEMENT, RENE; CLOUZOT, HENRI-GEORGES; COCTEAU, JEAN; DALI, SALVADOR; DE FILIPPO, EDUARDO; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; DE SICA, VITTORIO; DISNEY, WALT; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR; DREYER, CARL TH.; DUCHAMP, MARCEL; DUVIVIER, JULIEN; ELTON, ARTHUR; ENGEL, MORRIS; EPSTEIN, JEAN; FELLINI, FEDERICO; FEUILLADE, LOUIS; FEYDER, JACQUES; FISCHINGER, OSKAR; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; FORD, JOHN; FRANJU, GEORGES; FREUD, SIGMUND; GANCE, ABEL; GARNETT, GALE; GIDE, ANDRE; GREENE, GRAHAM; GRIERSON, JOHN; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; GRIFFITHS, RICHARD; GUITRY, SACHA; HARRINGTON, CURTIS; HILL, DAVID; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; WACHSFIGURENKABINETT, DAS (G, Paul Leni, 1924); SMULTRONSTALLET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957); VITELLONI, I (IT, Federico Fellini, 1953); VAMPYR: THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF ALLEN GRAY [VAMPYR: DER TRAUM DES ALLAN GRAY] (G/FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932); VARIETE (G, E.A. Dupont, 1925); VALLEY TOWN - A STUDY OF MACHINES AND MEN (US, Willard Van Dyke, 1940); UMBERTO D. (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1952); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); THIRD MAN, THE (UK, Carol Reed, 1949); OKTIABR (UR, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1928); TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1956); SYMPHONIE PASTORALE, LA (FR, Jean Delannoy, 1946); SWING TIME (US, George Stevens, 1936); STRADA, LA (IT, Federico Fellini, 1954); ROMAN D'UN TRICHEUR, LE (FR, Sacha Guitry, 1936); MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946); SPIONE (G, Fritz Lang, 1928); SPELLBOUND (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1945); SOUS LES TOITS DE PARIS (FR, Rene Clair, 1930); SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (US, David Hand, 1937); SMILING LIEUTENANT, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1931); SHANE (US, George Stevens, 1953); SJUNDE INSEGLET, DET (SW, Ingmar Bergman, 1957); GEHEIMNISSE EINER SEELE (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1926); SCARFACE (US, Howard Hawks, 1932); SANG DES BETES, LE (FR, Georges Franju,1949); SAN FRANCISCO (US, W.S. Van Dyke, 1936); ROUE, LA (FR, Abel Gance, 1922); ROMEO I DZULETTA (UR, Lev Arnstam & Leonid Lavrovskij, 1954); RICHARD III (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1955); REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939); RED SHOES, THE (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948); RASHOMON (JA, Akira Kurosawa, 1950); REGEN (NE, Joris Ivens, 1929); PYGMALION (UK, Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard, 1938); PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951); PATHER PANCHALI (II, Satyajit Ray, 1955); PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928); PARIS 1900 (FR, Nicole Vedres, 1948); PARADINE CASE, THE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1947); OTELLO (UR, Sergej Jutkevic, 1956); ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954); OLVIDADOS, LOS (MX, Luis Bunuel, 1951); OF MEN AND MUSIC (US, Irving Reis, 1950); NOSFERATU - EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 1936); NIGHT AT THE OPERA, A (US, Sam Wood, 1935); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); MOULIN ROUGE (UK, E.A. Dupont, 1928); MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947); MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936); MOBY DICK (UK, John Huston, 1956); MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); MILLION, LE (FR, Rene Clair, 1931); METROPOLIS (GG, Fritz Lang, 1927); MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (US, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943); MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG (G, Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer, 1929); MARTY (US, Delbert Mann, 1954); MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1936); MAJOR BARBARA (UK, Gabriel Pascal, 1941); MADAME BOVARY (FR, Claude Chabrol, 1991); MACBETH (US, Orson Welles, 1948); M (G, Fritz Lang, 1931); LOVE PARADE, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929); LIMELIGHT (US, Charles Chaplin, 1952); LIFEBOAT (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1944); OSTATNI ETAP (PL, Wanda Jakubowska, 1948); LADY IN THE LAKE (US, Robert Montgomery, 1946); KID, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1921); JULIUS CAESAR (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1953); JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927); IVAN GROZNY [IVAN THE TERRIBLE] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, pt.1:1945, pt.2:1958[prod.1946]); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); INVISIBLE MAN, THE (US, James Whale, 1933); INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916); HUMAN DESIRE (US, Fritz Lang, 1954); HOUSING PROBLEMS (UK, Edgar Anstey & Arthur Elton, 1935); HOTEL DES INVALIDES (FR, Georges Franju, 1952); HIGH NOON (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952); HENRY V (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1944); HEIRESS, THE (US, William Wyler, 1949); HATFUL OF RAIN, A (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1957); HAMLET (UK, Laurence Olivier, 1948); HALLELUJAH (US, King Vidor, 1929); GREED (US, Erich von Stroheim, 1925); GREAT EXPECTATIONS (UK, David Lean, 1946); GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940); GRANDE ILLUSION, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1937); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); GLASS MENAGERIE, THE (US, Irving Rapper, 1950); VORMITTAGSSPUK (G, Hans Richter, 1928); GHOST GOES WEST, THE (UK, Rene Clair, 1935); GHOST AND MRS MUIR, THE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1947); GERVAISE (FR, Rene Clement, 1956); JIGOKUMON (JA, Teinosuke kinugasa, 1953); FURY (US, Fritz Lang, 1936); [FOUR] HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1962); FARREBIQUE [FARREBIQUE OU LES QUATRE SAISONS] (FR, Georges Rouquier, 1946); FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940); ZEMLJA (UR, Alexksandr Dovzenko, 1930); DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (US, George Marshall, 1939); DESTINY [MUDE TOD, DER] (G, Fritz Lang, 1921); DEATH OF A SALESMAN (US, Laslo Benedek, 1951); DEAD OF NIGHT (UK, Alberto Cavalcanti & Charles Crichton & Basil Dearden & Robert Hamer, 1945); CONDAMNE A MORT S`EST ECHAPPE, UN (FR, Robert Bresson, 1956); CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931); CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); CINDERELLA (US, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Laske & Clyde Geronomi, 1950); CHIEN ANDALOU, UN (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1928); BROKEN BLOSSOMS (US, David Wark Griffith, 1919); BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938 (US, Norman Taurog, 1940); BRIEF ENCOUNTER (UK, David Lean, 1945); BOOMERANG (US, Elia Kazan, 1947); SANG D'UN POETE, LE (FR, Jean Cocteau, 1932); BLACKMAIL (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1929); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); LADRI DI BICICLETTE (IT, Vittorio De Sica, 1949); BEZZERIDES, A.I.; BEN HUR (US, Fred Niblo, 1925); BAMBI (US, David Hand, 1942); BALLET MECANIQUE, LE (FR, Fernand Leger, 1924); BACK STREET (US, John M. Stahl, 1932); ATALANTE, L' (FR, Jean Vigo, 1934); A PROPOS DE NICE (FR, Jean Vigo, 1930); APARAJITO (II, Satyajit Ray, 1957); ANNA CHRISTIE (US, Clarence Brown, 1930); ANATOMY OF A MURDER (US, Otto Preminger, 1959); AMERICAN TRAGEDY, AN (Josef von Sternberg, 1931); ALEKSANDR NEVSKI (UR, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1938); BROADWAY MELODY, THE (US, Harry Beaumont, 1929); LETZIE MANN, DER (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1924)
Notes: Frist published 1960; Previously published as: Nature of films. England : Dobson ;1965; Includes bilbiograpy: p. 351-364; Includes index
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