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Call No: 761 JAC
Author: Jacobs, Lewis, comp
Edition: 2nd ed
Place: New York
Publisher: W. W. Norton
PubDate: c1979
PhysDes: 594 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; HISTORY OF CINEMA; NEWSREELS; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; GRIERSON, JOHN; VERTOV, DZIGA; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; LEACOCK, RICHARD; WISEMAN, FREDERICK; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); GRASS (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1926); CHANG (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper, 1927); MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); RAIN (US, Louis Milestone, 1932); STARK LOVE (US, Karl Brown, 1927); TURKSIB (US, Victor A. Turin, 1929); DRIFTERS (SW, John Grierson, 1929); A PROPOS DE NICE (FR, Jean Vigo, 1930); QUE VIVA MEXICO! (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, [prod. 1932]); SONG OF CEYLON, THE (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); THREE SONGS ABOUT LENIN (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1934); TRI PESNI O LENINE (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1934); CITY, THE (US, Ralph Steiner, 1939); MAISONS DE LA MISERE, LES (BE, Henri Storck, 1937); OLYMPIA (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1938); TRIUMPH OF THE WILL (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); SPANISH EARTH, THE (US, Joris Ivens, 1937); FIGHT FOR LIFE, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1940); RIVER, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1938); CITY, THE (US, Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke, 1939); LAND WITHOUT BREAD (SP, Luis Bunuel, 1933); LAND, THE (US, Robert Flaherty, 1942); NATIVE LAND (US, Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand, 1942); NEGRO SOLDIER, THE (US, Frank Capra, 1944); DIARY FOR TIMOTHY, A (UK, Humphrey Jennings, 1946); FARREBIQUE (FR, Georges Rouquier, 1945); SAVAGE EYE, THE (US, Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick, 1959); JOLI MAI, LE (FR, Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme, 1963); CHRONIQUE D' UN ETE (FR, Jean Rouch/Edgar Morin, 1961); TITICUT FOLLIES (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1967); MARRIED COUPLE, A (CN, Allan King, 1969); WOODSTOCK (US, Michael Wadleigh, 1970); SORROW AND THE PITY, THE (SZ/GW, Marcel Ophuls, 1971); CHAGRIN ET LA PITIE, LE (SZ/GW, Marcel Ophuls, 1971); HEARTS AND MINDS (US, Peter Davis, 1974); HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A. (US, Barbara Kopple, 1976)
Summary: "Originally published in 1971, The Documentary Tradition is the essential survey of development and achievements of one of the most distinctive and influential genres of film. Edited by the distinguished filmmaker and historian Lewis Jacobs, the book has become an indispensable reference for both students and practitioners of documentary. This new edition brings The Documentary Tradition up to date and includes the writings of almost 100 filmmakers and critics. To the five parts which trace the development of the genre from the 1920s Jacobs has added a new section of seven essays on the documentaries of the 1970s. The section is introduced by his own survey of the filmmaking of the period, "From Political Activism to Women's Consciousness," and accompanied by a selected list of documentaries of the 1970s together with photographs from a number of these films. The bibliography of works on documentary films and filmmakers has been expanded." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 577-579
ISBN: 0393950425
LON: 1437994
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Call No: 761 DOC
Author: Grant, Barry Keith; Sloniowski, Jeanette
Place: Detroit MI
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: 488 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: 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 SITE
Notes: includes bibliiographic references and index
ISBN: 0814326390
Contents: 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

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

Call No: 45:32 FUR
Author: Furhammar, Leif, 1937; Isaksson, Folke, 1927-, joint author
Place: London
Publisher: Studio Vista
PubDate: 1971
PhysDes: 3-257 p. illus. 26 cm
Subject: POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; PROPAGANDA FILMS; ZAVATTINI, CESARE; MAN ON A STRING (US, Andre de Toth, 1960); CHE! (US, Richard Fleischer, 1969); EWIGE JUDE, DER (G, Fritz Hippler, 1942); OHM KRUEGER (G, Hans Steinhoff, 1941); NOVYI VAVILON (UR, Grigorij Kozincev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929); HITLERJUNGE QUEX (G, Hans Steinhoff, 1933); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); SPANISH EARTH, THE (US, Joris Ivens, 1937); MRS. MINIVER (UK, William Wyler, 1942); TORN CURTAIN (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1966); GREEN BERETS, THE (US, Ray Kellogg & John Wayne, 1968); HITLER GANG, THE (US, John Farrow, 1944); STALINGRADSKAYA BITVA (UR, Vladimir Petrov, 1949)
Notes: Rev. translation of Politik och film; Bibliography: p. 248-250
ISBN: 0289798132
LON: 616948
ID2: 127

Call No: 761 SHO
Author: Waugh, Thomas, 1948
Place: Metuchen, N.J.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
PubDate: 1984
PhysDes: xxvii, 508 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: NEWSREELS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. THIRD WORLD; ALVAREZ, SANTIAGO; VERTOV, DZIGA; SHUB, ESTHER; BRECHT, BERTOLT; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; IVENS, JORIS; RENOIR, JEAN; SOLANAS, FERNANDO E.; VAN DONGEN, HELEN; STRAND, PAUL; SCHEUMANN, PETER; MIEVILLE, ANNE-MARIE; KOPPLE, BARBARA; GUZMAN, PATRICIO; GETINO, OCTAVIO; ELAM, JOANN; ALLENDE, SALVADOR; BIRRI, FERNANDO; HURWITZ, LEO; VIE EST A NOUS, LA (FR, Jean Renoir & others, 1936); FINALLY GOT THE NEWS (US, League of Revolutionary Black Workers, 1970); NIGHTCLEANERS (UK, Berwick Street Film Collective, 1975); HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A. (US, Barbara Kopple, 1976); SANRIZUKA: DAINI TORIDE NO HITOBITO (JA, Shinsuke Ogawa, 1971); HORA DE LOS HORNOS, LA (AG, Fernado E. Solanos, 1969); ICI ET AILLEURS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Mieville, 1976); WAVES OF REVOLUTION (II, Arnaud Patwardhan, 1975); HABLANDO DEL PUNTO CUBANO (CU, Octavio Cortazar, 1972); POR PRIMERA VEZ (CU, Octavio Cortazar, 1967); NOW (CU, Santiago Alvarez, 1965); NATIVE LAND (US, Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand, 1942); RAPE (US, JoAnn Elam, 1975); KRIEG DER MUMIEN, DER (GE, Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann, 1974); SPANISH EARTH, THE (US, Joris Ivens, 1937)
Summary: "This anthology of 25 articles is both historical and cross- cultural, covering the pioneering period of the twenties and thirties and the dynamic growth of committed documentary since the sixties; recent feminist initiatives in North America and Britain; committed documentary in the Third World over the last 25 years; the use of film within the American 'New Left;' and the particular problematic of radical film distribution. Contributors include such well-known activists and scholars as Joan Braderman, Julianne Burton, Guy Hennebelle, John Hess, Claire Johnstone, E. Ann Kaplan, Chuck Kleinhans, Julia Lesage, Steve Neale, Bill Nichols, Anand Patwardhan, and Paul Willemen. Filmmakers and collectives discussed include Dziga Vertov, Joris Ivens, Jean Renoir, Frontier Films, Newsreel, Chris Marker, Barbara Kopple, JoAnn Elam, Michelle Citron, Shinsuke Ogawa, Fernando Birri, Patricio Guzman, Santiago Alvarez, Fernando Solanas, Jean-Luc Godard, Anand Patwardhan, and the Nicaraguan Studio 'Incine.'" -- AMAZON BOOKS
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes
ISBN: 0810822172 (pbk.); 0810817063
LON: 84005603; 3178777
Contents: Introduction: why documentary filmmakers keep trying to change the world, or why people changing the world keep making documentaries / Thomas Waugh; Part 1: Pioneers -- "Cinema Weekly" and "Cinema Truth": Dziga Vertov and the Leninist Proportion / Seth Feldman -- Esther Shub: Film as a historical discourse / Vlada Petric -- Workers' newsreels in Germany, the Netherlands, and Japan during the Twenties and Thirties / Bert Hogenkamp -- Radical documentary in the United States, 1930-1942 / Russell Campbell -- The Communist Party and La Vie est a nous: document and fiction, poetics and politics / Daniel Serceau -- Joris Iven's The Spanish Earth: committed documentary and the popular front / Thomas Waugh --; Part 2: Contemporaries: The West -- Newsreel, 1967-1972: film and revolution / Bill Nichols -- Finally Got the News: the making of a radical documentary / Dan Georgakas -- French radical documentary after May 1968 / Guy Hennebelle -- Brecht in Britain: The Nightcleaners and the independent political film / Claire Johnston and Paul Willemen -- Theory and practice of the realist documentary form in Harlan County, U.S.A. / E. Ann Kaplan -- Feminist documentary: aesthetics and politics / Julia Lesage -- Talking about our lives and experiences: some thoughts about feminism, documentary, and "talking heads" / Barbara Halpern Martineau -- Shinsuke Ogawa's Peasants of the Second Fortress: guerrilla documentary in Japan / Joan Braderman -- Committed documentary in Quebec: a still-birth? / Real La Rochelle -- The challenge of radical film distribution: Conversations with Toronto's DEC Films Collective / Margaret Cooper -- Forms, politics, makers and contexts: basic issues for a theory of radical political documentary / Chuck Kleinhans --; Part 3: Contemporaries: The Third World -- Democratizing documentary: modes of address in the Latin American cinema, 1958-72 / Julianne Burton -- Santiago Alvarez: Cine-agitator for the Cuban Revolution and the Third World / John Hess -- Democracy as participation: the Battle of Chile / Victor Wallis and John D. Barlow -- Children of Vertov in the land of Brecht / Pierre Veronneau -- Notes and questions on political cinema: from Hours of the Furnaces to Ici et ailleurs / Steve Neale -- The guerrilla film, underground and in exile: a critique and a case study of Waves of Revolution / Anand Patwardhan -- The Sandinista documentary: a historical contextualization / John Ramirez
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