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Call No: 761 SPE
Author: Spence, Louise; Navarro, Vinicius
Source: US/UK
Place: New Brunswick, NJ
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
PubDate: c2011
PhysDes: x, 281 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Subject: 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 BLURB
ISBN: 9780813549033
Contents: -- 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

Call No: 761 BEA
Author: Beattie, Keith
Place: London
Publisher: Wallflower
PubDate: 2008
PhysDes: xiv, 187 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; COMPILATION FILMS; IMAX; MONTAGE; NON-FICTION FILMS; BUNUEL, LUIS; GRIERSON, JOHN; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; PENNEBAKER, D. A.; VERTOV, DZIGA; VIGO, JEAN; DONT LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967)
Summary: "Not all documentary films and videos are sober depictions of the real world. Documentary representations can present expressive, entertaining and spectacular images. This book examines such innovative approaches as they occur within the process of 'documentary display' - a practice which emphasises the visual attractions of documentary representation. Works of documentary display explore modes of exhibitionistic 'showing' in which sensation is frequently the vehicle of cognition and knowledge. Such a display is analysed within the popular and prominent forms of found-footage film, 'rockumentary', the city film, nonfiction surf film and video, and certain views of natural science topics. This accessible and informed study - with its focus on entertaining, popular, spectacular and sensational froms of nonfiction representation - makes an important contribution to theoretical analyses of documentary film and video."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-181) and index.
ISBN: 9781905674725 (pbk)
Contents: Introduction -- 1. Show and tell: revealing documentary display -- 2. The corporeal and the urban: from city symphony to global city film -- 3. Direct cinema and performance: it's not only rock and roll -- 4. Found-footage film and history: seeing double -- 5. Nonfiction surf film and video: sick, filthy and delirious -- 6. Natural science film: from microcinema to IMAX -- Afterward

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: 62 NIC
Author: Nichols, Bill
Source: US
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1981
PhysDes: xv, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; THEORY; AESTHETICS; SEMIOLOGY; NON-FICTION FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; WISEMAN, FREDERICK; BLONDE VENUS (US, Josef von Sternberg, 1932); BIRDS, THE (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
Summary: "To what degree, Nichols asks, does ideology inform images in films, advertising, and other media? Does the cinema or any other sign system librerate or manipulate us? How can we as spectators know when the media are subtly perpetuating a specific set of values? To address these issues, the author draws from a variety of approaches - Marxism, psychoanalysis, communication theory, semiotics, structuralism, the psychology of perception. Working with two interrelated theories - ideology and systems of visual representation, and ideology and principles of textual criticism - Nichols shows how and why we make emotional investments in sign systems within an ideological context." -- BACK COVER
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 304-313
ISBN: 0253182875; 0253202566 (pbk.)
LON: 80007684; 1763485
Contents: Introduction: Picking up the trail -- 1. Art and the perceptual process -- 2. The analysis of representational images -- 3. The cinema: movement, narrative, and paradox -- 4. Blonde venus: playing with performance -- 5. For The birds -- 6. The documentary film and principles of exposition -- 7. Frederick Wiseman's documentaries: theory and structure -- 8. Documentary, criticism, and the ethnographic film -- Conclusion

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: NON-FICTION FILMS

Call No: 761 BAR
Author: Barsam, Richard Meran
Place: London
Publisher: Allen and Unwin
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: xix, 332 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm
Subject: NON-FICTION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; PROPAGANDA FILMS; WAR FILMS; ANDERSON, LINDSAY; CAPRA, FRANK; CAVALCANTI, ALBERTO; VAN DONGEN, HELEN; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; GRIERSON, JOHN; HUSTON, JOHN; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KING, ALLAN; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LYE, LEN; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; PENNEBAKER, D. A.; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROTHA, PAUL; RUTTMAN, WALTER; STORCK, HENRI; VAN DYKE, WILLARD; VERTOV, DZIGA; WADLEIGH, MICHAEL; WATT, HARRY; WISEMAN, FREDERICK; WRIGHT, BASIL; BOND, RALPH; ANSTEY, EDGAR; LORENTZ, PARE; HAMMID, ALEXANDER; ROGOSIN, LIONEL; STEINER, RALPH; ELTON, ARTHUR; JACOBY, IRVING; LAND, THE (US, Robert Flaherty, 1942); FIGHT FOR LIFE, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1940); MAISONS DE LA MISERE, LES (BE, Henri Storck, 1937); ALL OF MY BABIES : A MIDWIFE'S OWN STORY (US, George Stoney, 1952); BATTLE OF RUSSIA, THE (US, Frank Capra, 1944); LET THERE BE LIGHT (US, John Huston, 1946); DON'T LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967)
Summary: "Nonfiction film is the first work to document the whole history of nonfiction film from the 1920s to the present day. The main emphasis of the book is on the British and American cinema and hundreds of documentary, action, and 'actuality' films from Nanook of the North to Woodstock and Gimme Shelter are described, discussed and analysed, including films by the great pioneers such as Robert Flaherty, Basil Wright, John Grierson and Paul Rotha and the new experimental film makers like Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker, Frederick Wiseman and Albert and David Maysles. Richard Barsam provides a critical framework against which the non-fiction film can be studied and enjoyed. Among the many topics covered are early American, Russian and Continental films, the British and American films of the twenties and thirties, the films of World War II and the whole range of styles and subjects of the fifties, sixties and today." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Originally published: New York : Dutton, 1973; Bibl.: p.317-321. - List of films: p.299-316. - Index
ISBN: 0047910313 (Pbk) : ª1.95; 0047910305
LON: 1923477
Contents: 1. Defining nonfiction film -- 2. The American, Russian, and continental beginnings -- 3. John Grierson and the early British documentary -- 4. British documentary in the later 1930's -- 5. European and American nonfiction film: 1930-1940 -- 6. The humanistic vision of Robert Flaherty -- 7. World War II on film -- 8. Nonfiction film in transition: 1940-1950 -- 9. Old traditions and new directions: 1950-1960 -- 10. The new nonfiction film: 1960-1970
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Call No: 62 POS
Author: Bordwell, David, 1947; Carroll, Noel (NoFl E.)
Place: Madison
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: 564 p. : 23 cm
Series: Wisconsin studies in film
Subject: THEORY; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; TRUTH IN FILMS; MUSIC, FILM; NON-FICTION FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; JAPAN; DENMARK; EXHIBITION; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS; AUDIENCES; CONSTRUCTIVISM; EDITING; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; GENRES; LOVE IN FILMS; MELODRAMA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; COLUMBIA PICTURES; WARNER BROS.; BRECHT, BERTOLT; GIBSON, JAMES J.; COHN, HARRY; JAMESON, FREDRIC; MANDEL, ERNEST; RENOV, MICHAEL; JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927); CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942); ACCUSED, THE (US, Jonathan Kaplan, 1988)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0299149404 (cloth : alk. paper); 0299149447 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 95037052; 11859923

Call No: 115 287 (430.1) GRA
Author: Gramann, Karola
Edition: 1st ed.
Source: Federal Republic of Germany
Place: Munich
Publisher: Goethe Institute
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: 52 p ; 20cm + b&w ill.
Subject: SHORT FILMS; GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC; NON-FICTION FILMS; WORKERS IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; POLITICAL FILMS; NAZIS IN FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA; PEWAS, PETER; WILMS, ELISABETH; KOERBER, MARTIN; TICHAWSKY, HEINRICH; NESTLER, PETER; HERZ, HORST; DOERRIES, BERNHARD; KLUGE, ALEXANDER; SCHAMONE, PETER; STRAUB, JEAN-MARIE; KRISTL, VLADO; THOME, RUDOLPH; FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER; STOCKL, ULA; OTTINGER, ULRIKE; HERBST, HELMUT; SANDERS-BRAHMS, HELMA; FAROCKI, HARUN; GIEFER, THOMAS; BERSWORDT-WALLRABE, VON, ALEXANDER; MERBACH, ROSEMARIE; SCHUBERT, DIETRICH; WINZENSTEN, FRANZ; LANG, MARIA; NOLL BRINCKMANN; JORITZ, CATHY; MIKESCH, ELFI; KLEINE CHAOS, DAS (GR, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1966); MENSCHEN, STADTEN, SCHIENEN (GR,Peter Pewas, 1949); DORTMUND DAMALS (GR, Elisabeth Wilms, 1947); HERBSTBEDANKEN (GR, Peter Pewas, 1950); VELORENES BERLIN, EIN (GR,Richard Kostelanetz, Martin Koerber, 1983); NOTIZEN AUS DEM ALTMUHTAL (GR,Hans Rolf Strobel, Heinrich Tichawsky, 1961); MULHEIM/RUHR (GR, Peter Nestler, 1964); ES LOBT DEN MANN DIE ARBEIT UND DIE TAT (GR, Horst Herz, 1982); MANNEQUIN, DAS (GR, Bernhard Doerries, 1960); BRUTALITAT IN STEIN - DIE EWIGKEIT VON GESTERN (GR, Alexander Kluge, Peter Schamoni, 1960); MACHORKA MUFF (GR, Jean-Marie Straub, 1962); MADELEINE-MADELEINE (GR, Vlado Kristl, 1963); VERSOHNUNG, DIE (GR, Rudolf Thome, 1964/65); ANTIGONE (GR, Ula Stockl, 1964); SUPERBIA (GR, Ulrike Ottinger, 1986); SCHWARZ, WEISS, ROT (GR, Helmut Herbst, 1964); INDUSTRIELLE RESERVEARMEE, DIE, Helena Sanders-Brahms, 1970/71); NICHT LOSCHBARES FEUER (GR, Harun Farocki, 1969); TERROR AUCH IM WESTERN (GR, Thomas Giefer, 1968); ABSTECHER NACH ENKBACH, EIN (GR, Alexander von Berswordt-Wallrabe, 1979); MAMMA HEMMERS GEHT MIT IHREM PASTOR ZUM LETZEN MAL UBER'N HEINRICHPLATZ; KREUZBERG ADIO (GR, S.M Rosi, 1979); GEHT UM MEHR ALS NUR UMS UBERLEBEN, ES (GR, Dietrich Schubert, 1982); ANPROBE, DIE - 1938 (GR, Franz Winzenstein, 1985); ANGELIKA URBAN, VERKAUFERIN, VERLOBT (GR, Helma Sanders-Brahms, 1969); FAMILIENGRUFT-EIN LIEBESGEDICHT AN MEINE MUTTER (GR, Maria Lang, 1982); HALBES LEBEN, EIN (GR, Christine Noll Brinckmann, 1983); NEGATIVE MAN (GR, Cathy Joritz, 1985); EXECUTION-A STUDY OF MARY (GR, Elfi Mikesch, 1979)
Summary: This program presents a comprehensive survey of the Federal Republic of Germany’s contribution to the field of short films. Among other things it is a journey through the history of the former West Germany and the social changes it underwent, reflected in the various forms of political documentation and aesthetic innovation in the films.

PhysDes: Article
Subject: NATURAL HISTORY FILMS; NON-FICTION FILMS
Summary: Brief review of the film, hailing it a masterpiece.