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Documentary and the mass media / edited by John Corner London: Edward Arnold, 1986.
Call No: 761 DOCAuthor: Corner, John (ed.) Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Edward ArnoldPubDate: 1986PhysDes: 178 p. : 22 cmSeries: Stratford-upon-Avon Studies; Second seriesSubject: 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 BLURBNotes: Mass media. Documentaries (BNB/PRECIS); Includes bibliographical references and index; Includes indexISBN: 071316493XDonation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: -- 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 --
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Documenting the documentary : close readings of documentary films and video / edited by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski, forward by Bill Nichols Detroit MI: Wayne State University Press, 1998.
Call No: 761 DOCAuthor: Grant, Barry Keith ; Sloniowski, Jeanette Place: Detroit MIPublisher: Wayne State University PressPubDate: 1998PhysDes: 488 p. ; 23 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; FLAHERTY, ROBERT ; VERTOV, DZIGA ; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M. ; BUNUEL, LUIS ; WRIGHT, BASIL ; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) ; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929) ; QUE VIVA MEXICO! (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, [prod. 1932]) ; HURDES, LAS (SP, Luis Bunuel, 1933) ; SONG OF CEYLON, THE (UK, Basil Wright, 1934) ; TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935) ; PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936) ; CITY, THE (US, Ralph Steiner, 1939) ; SPANISH EARTH, THE (US, Joris Ivens, 1937) ; LISTEN TO BRITAIN (UK, Humphrey Jennings/Stewart McAllister, 1942) ; BLOOD OF THE BEASTS (FR, Georges Franju,1949) ; SANG DES BETES, LE (FR, Georges Franju,1949) ; MAITRES FOUS, LES (FR, Jean Rouch, 1955) ; NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955) ; DONT LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967) ; TITICUT FOLLIES (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1967) ; HORA DE LOS HORNOS, LA (AG, Fernado E. Solanos, 1968) ; ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES, THE (US, Stan Brakhage, 1971) ; AMERICAN FAMILY, AN [TV](US, 1973) ; DAISY, THE STORY OF A FACELIFT (CN, Michael Rubbo, 1982) ; THIS IS SPINAL TAP (US, Rob Reiner, 1984) ; SHERMAN'S MARCH (US, Ross McElwee, 1986 [prod. 1981]) ; I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS I AM LIKE (US, Bill Viola, 1986) ; JOURNEY, THE (CN, Peter Watkins, 1987) ; THIN BLUE LINE, THE (US, Errol Morris, 1988) ; ROGER AND ME (US, Michael Moore, 1989) ; TONGUES UNTIED (US, Marlon Riggs, 1989) ; PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990) ; FINDING CHRISTA (US, Camille Billops/James Hatch, 1991) Summary: Documenting the Documentary features essays by twenty-seven film scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender, and representation -- but always in terms of how they arise out of or are involved in the reading of specific documentaries as particular textual constructions. By closely reading documentaries as rich visual works, this anthology fills a void in the critical writing on documentaries, which tends to privilege production over aesthetic pleasure. As we perceive and comprehend the world through visual media increasingly, understanding the textual strategies by which individual documentaries are organized has become critically important. Together, the essays cover the significant developments in the history of the documentary, from the first commercially released feature, Nanook of the North (1922), to modern independent productions, such as An American Family (1973), Tongues Untied (1989), and Finding Christa (1991), and including important national and stylistic movements and various production contexts from the mainstream to the avant-garde. Seth Feldman places Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) within the context of constructivism and futurism; Vivian Sobchack discusses the strategies of Bunuel's Las Hurdas (Land without Bread, 1931) in relation to surrealism; and Joanne Hershfield explores Que viva Mexico! (1932) as the presentation of an exotic culture by a European director. Documenting the Documentary offers clear, serious, and insightful analyses of documentary films, and is a welcome balancebetween theory and criticism, abstract conceptualization and concrete analysis. --FROM PUBLISHER'S SITENotes: includes bibliiographic references and indexISBN: 0814326390Contents: Filmmaker as hunter / William Rothman -- Peace between man and machine / Seth Feldman -- Paradise regained / Joanne Hershfield -- Synthetic vision / Vivian Sobchack -- Art of national projection / William Guynn -- Mass psychology of fascist cinema / Frank P. Tomasulo -- American documentary finds its voice / Charlie Keil -- Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death / Thomas Waugh -- Poetics of propaganda / Jim Leach -- It was an atrocious film / Jeannette Sloniowski -- Dialogic imagination of Jean Rouch / Diane Scheinman -- Documenting the ineffable / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis -- Don't you ever just watch? / Jeanne Hall -- Ethnography in the first person / Barry Keith Grant -- Two avant-gardes / Robert Stam -- Seeing with experimental eyes / Bart Testa -- Bastard union of several forms / Jeffrey K. Ruoff -- Documentary of displaced persona / Joan Nicks -- Gender, power, and a cucumber / Carl Plantinga -- Documentary film and the discourse of hysterical/historical narrative / Lucy Fischer -- Subjectivity lost and found / Catherine Russell -- Filmmaker as global circumnavigator / Scott MacDonald -- Mirrors without memories / Linda Williams -- Documentaphobia and mixed modes / Matthew Bernstein -- Silence and its opposite / Sheila Petty -- Containing fire / Caryl Flinn -- Contested territory / Julia Lesage
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English filming, English writing / Jefferson Hunter Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, c2010.
Call No: 408.1(41) HUNAuthor: Hunter, Jefferson Source: USPlace: Bloomington INPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: c2010PhysDes: xii, 357 p. ; 23 cmSubject: ADAPTATIONS ; ADAPTATIONS. DICKENS, CHARLES ; ADAPTATIONS. ORWELL, GEORGE ; BRITISH CINEMA ; CRIME DRAMAS ; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. UNITED KINGDOM ; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA ; WORLD WAR II FILMS. UK ; BRIEF ENCOUNTER (UK, David Lean, 1945) ; CANTERBURY TALE, A (UK, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1944) ; LISTEN TO BRITAIN (UK, Humphrey Jennings/Stewart McAllister, 1942) ; LOOK BACK IN ANGER (UK, Tony Richardson, 1959) ; REMAINS OF THE DAY, THE (UK/US, James Ivory, 1993) ; SINGING DETECTIVE, THE [TV] (UK, Jon Amiel, 1986) Summary: "Jefferson Hunter examines English films and television dramas as they relate to English culture in the twentieth century. He traces themes such as the influence of US crime drama on English film, and film adaptations of literary works as they appear in screen work from the 1930s to the present. A Canterbury Tale and the documentary Listen to Britain are analyzed in the context of village pageants and other wartime explorations of Englishness at risk. English crime dramas are set against the writings of George Orwell, while a famous line from Noel Coward also leads to a discussion of music and image in works including Brief Encounter and Look Back in Anger. Screen adaptation is also broached in analyses of the 1985 BBC version of Dickens's Bleak House and Merchant-Ivory's The Remains of the Day." - BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes notes and indexISBN: 9780253221773
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Humphrey Jennings / Keith Beattie Manchester ; New York: Manchester University Press, 2010.
Call No: 81JEN BEAAuthor: Beattie, Keith Place: Manchester ; New YorkPublisher: Manchester University PressPubDate: 2010PhysDes: xii, 171 p. ; 23 cm.Series: British Film MakersSubject: JENNINGS, HUMPHREY ; SPARE TIME (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1939) ; WORDS FOR BATTLE (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1941) ; LISTEN TO BRITAIN (UK, Humphrey Jennings/Stewart McAllister, 1942) ; FIRES WERE STARTED (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1943) ; SILENT VILLAGE, THE (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1943) ; DIARY FOR TIMOTHY, A (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1946) ; FAMILY PORTRAIT (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1950) Summary: An examination of the aesthetic qualities and theoretical ideas that run through the works of Humphrey Jennings, with contextual reference to British film and cultures.Notes: Includes index, filmography and bibliographic references.ISBN: 978071907855
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