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Call No: 81VER VER
Author: Vertov, Dziga, 1896-1954
Place: Wien
Publisher: Fsterreichisches Filmmuseum
PubDate: 1967
PhysDes: 150 p. 19 cm
Subject: VERTOV, DZIGA
Notes: Selections from the author's Stati, dnevniki, zamysly
LON: 75425035; 1417860

Call No: 772 CRA
Author: Crafton, Donald
Place: Cambridge, Mass.
Publisher: MIT Press
PubDate: c1982
PhysDes: xx, 413 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: ANIMATED FILMS; MESSMER, OTTO; MCCAY, WINSOR; COHL, EMILE; BRAY, JOHN RANDOLPH; FELIX THE CAT; FLEISCHER STUDIO; HURD, EARL; LANTZ, WALTER; STAREVITCH, LADISLAS; VERTOV, DZIGA; HAUNTED HOTEL, THE (US, J. Stuart Blackton, 1907)
Notes: Includes index; "Sources for early animated films" p. [373]-380; Bibliography: p. [381]-395
ISBN: 0262030837
LON: 2144183 2144183

Call No: 761(04) BEY
Author: Warren, Charles, 1948
Place: Hanover, NH
Publisher: University Press of New England
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: xxviii, 366 p. : ports. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; DIRECTORS; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; NEWSREELS; MEMORY IN FILMS; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS; GENOCIDE IN FILMS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955); OPHULS, MARCEL; RESNAIS, ALAIN; SANS SOLEIL (FR, Chris Marker, 1983); SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985); TRI PESNI O LENINE (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1934); WR MISTERIJE ORGANIZMA (YU/GW, Dusan Makaveyev, 1971); BOOMERANG (US, Elia Kazan, 1947); VERTOV, DZIGA; MARKER, CHRIS; FILM PORTAIT (US, Jerome Hill, 1972); GARDNER, ROBERT; MCELWEE, ROSS; ZERKALO (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
Summary: "In essays by eleven of America's foremost writers, critics and filmmakers, Beyond Document explores the full spectrum on nonfiction film and its creative possibilities. In addition to Charles Warren's broad introductory history of the genre, the book takes a close look at ethnographic films, cinema verite, memoir and autobiography, docudramas, essay films, and newsreels, from classics like Night and Fog and Nanook of the North to more recent important work like Film about a Woman Who..., Harlan County, U.S.A., Sans Soleil, and Forest of Bliss. Representations of reality are increasingly contested, in courtrooms and Congress, as well as in art. Asking what the art of film can achieve, Helene Keyssar considers the history of nonfiction films by women; Jay Cantor discusses film investigations of the Holocaust; Patricia Hampl looks at how autobiographical films render experience into narrative; Robert Gardner questions the filmmaker's "impulse to preserve"; and poet Susan Howe explores structures of mourning in several filmmakers. All of the books essays provide deeply felt understandings of documentary film, and of how we live with, and within, images." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-350) and index
ISBN: 0819552879 (cl : alk. paper); 0819562904 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 11642141
Contents: Words of welcome / Stanley Cavell -- Introduction, with a brief history of nonfiction film / Charles Warren -- Death and the image / Jay Cantor -- Memory's movies / Patricia Hampl -- Eternal Verites / William Rothman -- The toil of thought: on several nonfiction films by women / Helene Keyssar -- The camera people / Eliot Weinberger -- The impulse to preserve / Robert Gardner -- You are there / Maureen Howard -- Earth and beyond: Dusan Makaveyev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism / Charles Warren -- In search of the centaur: the essay film / Phillip Lopate -- Vertov's cinematic transposition of reality / Vlada Petric -- Sorting facts; or, nineteen ways of looking at marker / Susan Howe

Call No: 81BRE WAL
Author: Walsh, Martin, 1947-1977; Griffiths, Keith M
Place: London
Publisher: BFI Pub.
PubDate: 1981
PhysDes: 136 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: BRECHT, BERTOLT; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; VERTOV, DZIGA; LOSEY, JOSEPH; GORIN, JEAN-PIERRE
Notes: Bibliography: p. 134-136
ISBN: 0851701116 : ª8.00; 0851701124 (pbk.) : ª4.25
LON: 81151542; 2197617 4419904

Call No: 62(081) COM
Author: Comolli, Jean-Louis
Place: Amsterdam
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
PubDate: 2015
PhysDes: 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series: Film theory in media history
Subject: COMOLLI, JEAN-LOUIS; BAZIN, ANDRE; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; MITRY, JEAN; STRAUB, JEAN-MARIE; VERTOV, DZIGA; WELLES, ORSON
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9789089645548
Contents: Cinema against Spectacle -- I.Opening the Window? -- II.Inventing the Cinema? -- III.Filming the Disaster? -- IV.Cutting the Figure? -- V.Changing the Spectator? -- Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field -- I.On a Dual Origin, The ideological place of the "base apparatus", Birth = deferral: The invention of the cinema -- II.Depth of Field: The Double Scene, Bazin's "surplus realism", The work of "transparency", For a materialist history of the cinema, "For the first time..." -- III."Primitive" Depth of Field -- IV.Effacement of Depth/ Advent of Speech -- V.Which Speech?.

Call No: 71(47) CIN
Author: Schnitzer, Luda, ed; Schnitzer, Jean, ed; Martin, Marcel, ed
Place: London
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
PubDate: 1973
PhysDes: 208 p. illus., ports. 22 cm
Subject: USSR; VERTOV, DZIGA
Notes: Translation of Le Cinema sovietique par ceux qui l'ont fait; Includes bibliographies and index
ISBN: 0436443708; 0436443716 (pbk.)
LON: 405087

Call No: 761.2(73) MAM
Author: Mamber, Stephen
Place: Cambridge, Mass.
Publisher: MIT Press
PubDate: [1974]
PhysDes: vi, 288 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: CINEMA VERITE; CINEMA-DIRECT; BRANDO, MARLON; DREW, ROBERT; LEACOCK, RICHARD; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; PENNEBAKER, D. A.; WISEMAN, FREDERICK; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; FONDA, JANE; VERTOV, DZIGA; ZAVATTINI, CESARE; ROUQUIER, GEORGES; RENOIR, JEAN; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED; CRISIS (US, James Lipscomb, Hope Ryden, Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker, 1963); DON'T LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967); HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, A (US, Joyce Chopra/Richard Leacock, 1963); HIGH SCHOOL (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1969); JANE (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1962); MEET MARLON BRANDO (US, Albert Maysles & David Maysles, 1966); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)
Summary: A study of the Cinema verite approach to film making, primarily made up of examinations of particular films. "The relationship between camera and subject, problems of structure, and distinctive characteristics of each filmmaker's approach are also discussed.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [276]-283
ISBN: 0262130920
LON: 508990
Contents: Cinema verite: definitions and background -- Drew Associates -- Direct cinema and crisis structure -- The Maysles brothers -- D. A. Pennebaker -- Richard Leacock -- Frederick Wiseman -- Conclusion

Call No: 761.2(73) MAM COPY 2
Author: Mamber, Stephen
Source: UK
Place: Cambridge, MA
Publisher: MIT Press
PubDate: c1974
PhysDes: vi, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: CINEMA VERITE; CINEMA-DIRECT; BRANDO, MARLON; FONDA, JANE; DREW, ROBERT; LEACOCK, RICHARD; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; PENNEBAKER, D. A.; WISEMAN, FREDERICK; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; VERTOV, DZIGA; ZAVATTINI, CESARE; ROUQUIER, GEORGES; RENOIR, JEAN; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED; CRISIS (US, James Lipscomb, Hope Ryden, Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker, 1963); DON'T LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967); HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, A (US, Joyce Chopra/Richard Leacock, 1963); HIGH SCHOOL (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1969); JANE (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1962); MEET MARLON BRANDO (US, Albert Maysles & David Maysles, 1966); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)
Summary: A study of the Cinema verite approach to film making, primarily made up of examinations of particular films. "The relationship between camera and subject, problems of structure, and distinctive characteristics of each filmmaker's approach are also discussed.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [276]-283
ISBN: 0262130920
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 79CEL PET
Author: Petric, Vlada
Place: Cambridge New York
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: xii, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Cambridge studies in film
Subject: VERTOV, DZIGA; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Notes: Filmography: p. 213-220; Includes bibliographies and index
ISBN: 0521321743
LON: bnb52132174; 4636285

Call No: 71 (47) DIR
Author: Beumers, Birgit
Place: Bristol, UK ; Chicago
Publisher: Intellect.
PubDate: 2011
PhysDes: 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series: Directory of world cinema, 2040-7971 ; v.4 Directory of world cinema ; v. 4.
Subject: RUSSIA; RUSSIA IN FILMS; RUSSIANS IN FILMS; U.S.S.R.; U.S.S.R. IN FILMS; SOVIET UNION; BAUER, EVGENII; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI; VERTOV, DZIGA; TARKOVSKII, ANDREI; MIKHALKOV, NIKITA; SOKUROV, ALEKSANDR; WOLFY; VOLCHOK; KINOTAVR
Summary: Analysis of Russian films over the last hundred plus years through the lens of genre (alien to Soviet film culture, which perceived genre as a low-culture, capitalist mass product). Each chapter begins with a broad overview of the films categorised within a particular genre and a description of the political and cultural context in which these films were produced. Films are then individually summarised and critiqued. Preliminary chapters discuss 2009 Film of the Year,Vasilii Sigarev's Wolfy; film production in Russia; Russian directors; and the concept of genre in Russia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
ISBN: 9781841503721 (pbk.) 184150372X (pbk.)
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: Film of the year : Vasilii Sigarev's Wolfy (2009) -- Interview : Vasilii Sigarev and Iana Troianova -- Film production in Russia : an industry? -- Festival focus : Kinotavr -- What does zhanr mean in Russian -- Directors : Evgenii Bauer, Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Andrei Tarkovskii, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksandr Sokurov -- Historical film : Essay ; Reviews -- War film : Essay ; Reviews -- Comedy and musical comedy : Essay ; Reviews -- Melodrama : Essay ; Reviews -- Literary adaptation : Essay ; Reviews -- Biopic : Essay ; Reviews -- Action/ Red Western : Essay ; Reviews -- Children's films : Essay ; Reviews -- Animation : Essay ; Reviews -- Documentary : Essay ; Reviews -- Recommended reading : Russian Cinema Online.
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Call No: 761 BAR
Author: Barnouw, Erik, 1908
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: vi, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS; COMPILATION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. US; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; CINEMA VERITE; NAZIS IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. FRANCE; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; GPO FILM UNIT; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; GRIERSON, JOHN; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MURROW, EDWARD R.; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WRIGHT, BASIL; SUCKSDORFF, ARNE; MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); AMERICAN DREAM (US, Barbara Kopple, 1990); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Basil Wright & Harry Watt, 1936); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); SONG OF CEYLON, THE (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44)
Summary: Barnouw traces the documentary from its beginning at the dawn of film history - the work of the Lumiere brothers - to the remarkable group of films that have portrayed the Vietnam war. Films are placed within their broader social perspective, and Barnouw traces filmmaking developments in a single country to global uptake. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of governments and large corporations on the content of films. The book covers television documentary, direct cinema, cinema verite as well as film-makers dealing with exploration, animals, aspects of war, human behaviour, social problems and propaganda. Such diverse film-makers as Flaherty, Vertov, Grierson, Ivens, Lorentz, Jennings, Sucksdorff, Rouch, Leacock, and the Maysles are included.
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [297]-311
ISBN: 0195018354 : $10.95
LON: 74079618; 462942

Call No: 761 BAR
Author: Barnouw, Erik, 1908
Edition: 2nd rev. ed
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: 400 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; COMPILATION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USA; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; NAZIS IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. FRANCE; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; GPO FILM UNIT; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; Grierson, John; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MURROW, EDWARD R.; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WRIGHT, BASIL; SUCKSDORFF, ARNE; MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); AMERICAN DREAM (US, Barbara Kopple, 1990); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Basil Wright & Harry Watt, 1936); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); SONG OF CEYLON (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44)
Summary: This is the second revised edition of Documentary: A History of the Non-fiction Film. Barnouw traces the documentary from its beginning at the dawn of film history - the work of the Lumiere brothers - to the remarkable group of films that have portrayed the Vietnam war. Films are placed within their broader social perspective, and Barnouw traces filmmaking developments in a single country to global uptake. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of governments and large corporations on the content of films. The book covers television documentary, direct cinema, cinema verite as well as film-makers dealing with exploration, animals, aspects of war, human behaviour, social problems and propaganda. Such diverse film-makers as Flaherty, Vertov, Grierson, Ivens, Lorentz, Jennings, Sucksdorff, Rouch, Leacock, and the Maysles are included.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-375) and index
ISBN: 0195078985 (pbk. : acid-free paper) : $10.95
LON: 9430204

Call No: 761 BAR
Author: Barnouw, Eric
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: 332 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; COMPILATION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USA; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; NAZIS IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. FRANCE; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; GPO FILM UNIT; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; Grierson, John; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MURROW, EDWARD R.; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WRIGHT, BASIL; SUCKSDORFF, ARNE; MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); AMERICAN DREAM (US, Barbara Kopple, 1990); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Basil Wright & Harry Watt, 1936); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); SONG OF CEYLON, THE (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44)
Summary: Barnouw traces the documentary from its beginning at the dawn of film history - the work of the Lumiere brothers - to the remarkable group of films that have portrayed the Vietnam war. Films are placed within their broader social perspective, and Barnouw traces filmmaking developments in a single country to global uptake. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of governments and large corporations on the content of films. The book covers television documentary, direct cinema, cinema verite as well as film-makers dealing with exploration, animals, aspects of war, human behaviour, social problems and propaganda. Such diverse film-makers as Flaherty, Vertov, Grierson, Ivens, Lorentz, Jennings, Sucksdorff, Rouch, Leacock, and the Maysles are included.
ISBN: 0195018354
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
Contents: -- 1: glimpse of wonders -- 2: images at work -- 3: sound and fury -- 4: clouded lens -- sharp focus -- afterword -- source notes -- bibliography -- index --

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 DOC
Author: Winston, Brian
CorpAuthor: British Film Institute
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2013
PhysDes: 416 pages ; 25 cm
Subject: AFRICA; ART CINEMA; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; BLACK CINEMA; BRAZIL; CINEMA-DIRECT; CINEMA VERITE; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; HISTORY ON TV; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; ISRAEL; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; PALESTINE; POLITICAL FILMS; RACE AND THE CINEMA; REVOLUTIONARY THEMES IN FILMS; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; REALITY TV; GRIERSON, JOHN; MOORE, MICHAEL; VERTOV, DZIGA; AFRICA RISING (US, Paula Heredia, 2009); AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER (UK, Nick Bloomfield & Joan Churchill, 2003); CHRONIQUE D' UN ETE (FR, Jean Rouch/Edgar Morin, 1961); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922)
Summary: Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never been more popular than it is today. Edited by one of the leading British authorities in the field, The Documentary Film Book is an essential guide to current thinking on documentary film. In a series of fascinating essays, key international experts discuss the theory of documentary, outline current understandings of its history (from pre-Flaherty to the post-Griersonian world of digital 'i-Docs'), survey documentary production (from Africa to Europe, and from the Americas to Asia), consider documentaries by marginalised minority communities, and assess its contribution to other disciplines and arts. Brought together here in one volume, these scholars offer compelling evidence as to why, over the last few decades, documentary has come to the centre of screen studies. -- BOOK BLURB
ISBN: 9781844573417
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword: Why Documentaries Matter -- Introduction: The Filmed Documentary --; PART I: DOCUMENTARY VALUES -- The Question of Evidence, the Power of Rhetoric and Documentary Film: Bill Nichols -- 'I'll Believe It When I Trust the Source': Documentary Images and Visual Evidence: Carl Plantinga -- 'The Performance Documentary': The Performing Film-Maker, the Acting Subject: Stella Bruzzi -- On Truth, Objectivity and Partisanship: The Case of Michael Moore: Douglas Kellner -- CGI and the End of Photography as Evidence: Taylor Downing -- Drawn From Life: The Animated Documentary: Andy Glynne -- Dramadoc? Docudrama? The Limits and Protocols of a Televisual Form: Derek Paget -- Ambiguous Audiences: Annette Hill -- Life As Narrativised: Brian Winston -- The Dance of Documentary Ethics: Pratap Rughani -- Deaths, Transfigurations and the Future: John Corner --; PART II: DOCUMENTARY PARADIGMS -- Problems in Historiography: The Documentary Tradition Before Nanook of the North: Charles Musser -- John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement: Ian Aitken -- Challenges For Change: Canada's National Film Board: Thomas Waugh and Ezra Winton -- Grierson's Legacies: Australia and New Zealand: Deane Williams -- New Deal Documentary and the North Atlantic Welfare State: Zoe Druick and Jonathan Kahana -- The Triumph of Observationalism: Direct Cinema in the USA: Dave Saunders -- Russian and Soviet Documentary: From Vertov to Sokurov: Ian Christie -- The Radical Tradition in Documentary Film-making, 1920s–50s: Bert Hogenkamp -- Le Groupe des trente: The Poetic Tradition: Elena Von Kassel Siambani -- Cinéma Vérité: Vertov Revisited: Genevieve Van Cauwenberge -- Beyond Sobriety: Documentary Diversions: Craig Hight --; PART III: DOCUMENTARY HORIZONS -- Eastwards: Abe Mark Nornes -- Africa N.: Frank Ukadike -- Images From the South: Contemporary Documentary in Argentina and Brazil: Ana Amado and Maria Dora Mourao -- 'Roadblock' Films, 'Children's Resistance' Films and 'Blood Relations' Films: Israeli and Palestinian Documentary Post-Intifada: Il Raya Morag -- Sacred, Mundane and Absurd Revelations of the Everyday – Poetic Vérité in the Eastern European Tradition; Susanna Helke --; PART IV: DOCUMENTARY VOICES -- First-Person Political: Alisa Lebow -- Feminist Documentaries: Finding, Seeing and Using Them: Julia Lesage -- Pioneers of Black Documentary Film: Pearl Bowser -- LGTBs' Documentary Identity: Christopher Pullen -- Docusoaps: The Ordinary Voice as Popular Entertainment: Richard Kilborn -- Reality TV: A Sign of the Times?: Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn --; PART V: DOCUMENTARY DISCIPLINES -- Anthropology: The Evolution of Ethnographic Film: Paul Henley -- Science, Society and Documentary: Tim Boon -- History Documentaries for Television: Ann Gray -- Music, Documentary, Music Documentary: Michael Chanan -- Art, Documentary as Art; Michael Renov --; PART VI: DOCUMENTARY FUTURES -- Documentary as Open Space: Helen de Michiel and Patricia R. Zimmermann -- 'This Great Mapping of Ourselves': New Documentary Forms Online: John Dovey and Mandy Rose -- New Platforms for 'Docmedia': 'Varient of a Manifesto': Peter Wintonick --; Afterword: The Unchanging Question: Brian Winston -- Index

Call No: 761 BEA
Author: Beattie, Keith
Source: UK
Place: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 276 p ; 21cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILM; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; CINEMA VERITE; CINEMA-DIRECT; JOURNALISTS, FILM; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV; REALITY TV; TABLOID JOURNALISM; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA; NATIONAL INDIGENOUS DOCUMENTARY FUND; NBC TELEVISION NETWORK; PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE; NETWORK TEN; VIDEODISCS; GRANADA; IMAX; INDEPENDENT TELEVISION COMMISSION; INTERACTIVE TV; MUSIC TELEVISION; TELEVISION JOURNALISTS; BUERK, MICHEAL; CAVADINI, ALESSANDRO; DE ANTONIO, EMILE; DREW, ROBERT; DYLAN, BOB; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; GRIERSON, JOHN; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT; MAYSLES, DAVID; MCELWEE, ROSS; MOORE, MICHAEL; MORIN, EDGAR; O'ROURKE, DENNIS; PENNEBAKER, D. A.; PILGER, JOHN; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; TAJIRI, REA; VERTOV, DZIGA; ATOMIC CAFE, THE (US, Kevin Rafferty & Jane Loader & Pierce Rafferty, 1982); CHEQUER-BOARD [TV] (AT, 1969-1975); FOUR CORNERS [TV] (AT, 1961-); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); BERLIN DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSTADT (G, Walter Ruttman, 1927); BIG BROTHER [TV] (AT, 2001); BIGGIE AND TUPAC (US, Nick Broomfield, 2001); BILL, THE [TV] (UK, 1984-); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE (US/CA, Michael Moore, 2002); BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (GG/US, Wim Wenders, 1999); CAMBODIA: YEAR ZERO (AT, John Pilger, 1989); CANE TOADS : AN UNNATURAL HISTORY (AT, Mark Lewis, 1987); CANNIBAL TOURS (AT, Dennis O' Rourke, 1987); CATHY COME HOME (UK, Ken Loach, 1966); CHRONIQUE D' UN ETE (FR, Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin, 1961); COPS AND ROBBERSONS (US, Michael Ritchie, 1994); CROCODILE DUNDEE (AT, Peter Faiman, 1986); CUNNAMULLA (AT, Dennis O'Rourke, 2000); DEATH OF A PRINCESS [TV] (UK/US/NZ/AT/NE, Antony Thomas, 1980); DISMISSAL, THE [TV] (AT, George T. Miller & others, 1983); DON'T LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967); GOOD WOMAN OF BANGKOK, THE (AT, Dennis O'Rourke, 1991); LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER, THE (US, Connie Field, 1980); MABO: LIFE OF AN ISLAND MAN (AT, Trevor Graham, 1997); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); MONTEREY POP (US, D. A. Pennebaker, 1968); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); POLICE STATE (AT, Chris Noonan, 1989); SYLVANIA WATERS [TV] (AT, Brian Hill & Kate Woods, 1993); WALKING WITH DINOSAURS[TV] (UK, 1999); WAR GAME, THE (UK, Peter Watkins, 1966)
Summary: Documentary Screens is a comprehensive and critical examination of the formal features and histories of central categories of documentary film and television. Among the categories examined are autobiographical, indigenous and ethnographic documentary, compilation films, direct cinema and cinema verite and television documentary journalism. The book also considers recent so called popular factual entertainment and the future of documentary film, television and new media. [Taken from back cover].
ISBN: 033374117X
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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 HIC
Author: Hicks, Jeremy
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: xi, 194 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Series: KINO: the Russian cinema series
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; VERTOV, DZIGA; MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); THREE SONGS ABOUT LENIN (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1934) SEE TRI PESNI OF LENINE; TRI PESNI O LENINE (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1934)
Summary: "Pioneer of political documentary and inventor of cinema verite, Dziga Vertov has exerted a decisive influence on directors from Eisenstein to Goddard. Yet his reputation long rested upon a lone masterpiece, Man with a Movie Camera. Recently, however, Vertov has begun to be recognised as the creator of a body of innovative and distinct films. This, the first book in English to cover the whole of Vertov's career, reveals him to be an auteur, allowing readers to combine the familiar and less familiar aspects of his filmmaking and thinking in a cohesive narrative. Jeremy Hicks demonstrates how Vertov draws on Soviet journalistic models for his transformation of newsreel into the new form of documentary film. Through analyses of Cine-Pravda No 21 (Leninst Cine-Pravda), Cine-Eye, Forward Soviet!, A Sixth Part of the World, The Eleventh Year, Man with a Movie Camera, Enthusiasm, Three Songs of Lenin and Lullaby, he shows how Vertov's greatest works combine authentic documentary footage ingeniously for tremendous rhetorical effect. The director's current reputation is in sharp counterpoint to the way his films were received in Russia: in the 1920s the sheer novelty of the documentary genre meant his work was little understood and much criticised, and in the 1930s Vertov was marginalised. Documentary as we know it today is unthinkable without the rediscovery of Vertov in the 1960s. In an age more suspicious of documentary's implicit claims to objectivity, Vertov's reflexive and overtly partisan films are of even greater relevance, but need to be better known and understood. This is the purpose of Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film." -- BOOK BLURB
Contents: -- Acknowledments -- list of illustrations -- preface -- Introduction : Dziga Vertov--defining documentary film -- The birth of documentary from the spirit of journalism : Cine-Pravda, Cine-Eye -- Vertov and documentary theory : 'the goal was truth, the means Cine-Eye' -- 'A card catalogue in the gutter' : Forward, Soviet!, A sixth part of the world -- New paths : The eleventh year, Man with a movie camera -- Sound and the defence of documentary : Enthusiasm -- Documentary or hagiography? : Three songs of Lenin -- Years of sound and silence : Lullaby -- Forward Dziga! Foreign and posthumous reception -- notes -- select bibliography -- filmography -- index --

Call No: 632.22 ESS
Author: Papazian, Elizabeth A; Eades, Caroline
Edition: 2016
Place: New York; Chichester, UK
Publisher: Wallflower Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: xi,315 p. : illustrated ; 23 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); TREE OF LIFE, THE (US, Terrence Malick, 2011); VERTOV, DZIGA; MARKER, CHRIS; Pasolini, Pier Paolo; AKERMAN, CHANTAL; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; MORETTI, NANNI; DENIS, CLAIRE; MALICK, TERRENCE
Summary: With its increasing presence in a continuously evolving media environment, the essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to the world, and the aesthetic possibilities of cinema. In this volume, authors specializing in various national cinemas (Cuban, French, German, Israeli, Italian, Lebanese, Polish, Russian, American) and critical approaches (historical, aesthetic, postcolonial, feminist, philosophical) explore the essay film and its consequences for the theory of cinema while building on and challenging existing theories. Taking as a guiding principle the essay form's dialogic, fluid nature, the volume examines the potential of the essayistic to question, investigate, and reflect on all forms of cinema—fiction film, popular cinema, and documentary, video installation, and digital essay. A wide range of filmmakers are covered, from Dziga Vertov (Man with a Movie Camera, 1928), Chris Marker (Description of a Struggle, 1960), Nicolás Guillén Landrián (Coffea Arábiga, 1968), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Notes for an African Oresteia, 1969), Chantal Akerman (News from Home, 1976) and Jean-Luc Godard (Notre musique, 2004) to Nanni Moretti (Palombella Rossa, 1989), Mohammed Soueid (Civil War, 2002), Claire Denis (L'Intrus, 2004) and Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life, 2011), among others. The volume argues that the essayistic in film—as process, as experience, as experiment—opens the road to key issues faced by the individual in relation to the collective, but can also lead to its own subversion, as a form of dialectical thought that gravitates towards crisis. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780231176958
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia, by Elizabeth A. Papazian and Caroline Eades -- Part I: The Essay Film as Dialogue -- 1. Essayism and Contemporary Film Narrative, by Timothy Corrigan -- 2. Essaying the Forms of Popular Cinema: Godard, Farocki and the Principle of Shot/Countershot, by Rick Warner -- 3. The Practice of Strangeness: L'Intrus, from Jean-Luc Nancy (2000) to Claire Denis (2004), by Martine Beugnet -- 4. Cinéma-vérité and Kino-pravda: Rouch, Vertov, and the Essay Form, by Caroline Eades and Elizabeth A. Papazian -- Part II: The Essay Film as Politics -- 5. Notes for a Revolution: Pasolini's Postcolonial Essay Films, by Luca Caminati -- 6. Chris Marker's Description of a Struggle and the Limits of the Essay Film, by Eric Zakim -- 7. A Woman with a Movie Camera: Chantal Akerman's Essay Films, by Anne Eakin Moss -- 8. 'What Does It Mean Today to Be a Communist?': Nanni Moretti's Palombella rossa and La cosa as Essay Films, by Mauro Resmini -- Part III: The Essay Film as Utopia -- 9. Mohamed Soueid's Cinema of Immanence, by Laura U. Marks -- 10. Inside/Outside: Nicolasito Guillén Landrián's Subversive Strategy in Coffea Arábiga, by Ernesto Livon-Grosman -- 11. American Essays in How to Build a Home: Thoreau, Mekas, Proenneke, by Oliver Gaycken -- 12. 'to speak, to hold, to live by the image': Notes in the Margins of the New Videographic Tendency, by Luka Arsenjuk -- Afterword: The Idea of Essay Film, by Laura Rascaroli -- Index

Call No: 632.22 ESS
Author: Alter, Nora M.; Corrigan, Timothy
Place: New York; Chichester, U.K.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 2017
PhysDes: ix,372 : illus. ; 23 cm
Series: Film and culture series
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; RICHTER, HANS; ASTRUC, ALEXANDRE; MARKER, CHRIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; GORIN, JEAN-PIERRE; MULVEY, LAURA; JULIEN, ISAAC
Summary: The essay—with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements—has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically discussed forms of filmmaking around the world, with practitioners such as Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl, Errol Morris, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Rithy Panh. Characteristics of the essay film include the blending of fact and fiction, the mixing of art- and documentary-film styles, the foregrounding of subjective points of view, a concentration on public life, a tension between acoustic and visual discourses, and a dialogic encounter with audiences. This anthology of fundamental statements on the essay film offers a range of crucial historical and philosophical perspectives. It provides early critical articulations of the essay film as it evolved through the 1950s and 1960s, key contemporary scholarly essays, and a selection of writings by essay filmmakers. It features texts on the foundations of the essay film by writers such as Hans Richter and André Bazin; contemporary positions by, among others, Phillip Lopate and Michael Renov; and original essays by filmmakers themselves, including Laura Mulvey and Isaac Julien. -- publishers' web site
ISBN: 9780231172677
Contents: Introduction, by Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan Part I. Foundations 1. "On the Nature and Form of the Essay," by Georg Lukács 2. The Man Without Qualities, by Robert Musil 3. "On the Essay and Its Prose," by Max Bense 4. "The Essay as Form," by Theodor W. Adorno 5. "Preface to The Collected Essays of Aldous Huxley," by Aldous Huxley Part II. The Essay Film Through History 6. "The Film Essay: A New Type of Documentary Film," by Hans Richter 7. "The Future of Cinema," by Alexandre Astruc 8. "Bazin on Marker," by André Bazin Part III. Contemporary Positions 9. "In Search of the Centaur: The Essay-Film," by Phillip Lopate 10. "The Political Im/Perceptible in the Essay Film: Farocki's Images of the World and the Inscription of War," by Nora M. Alter 11. "Essay Questions," by Paul Arthur 12. "The Electronic Essay," by Michael Renov 13. "The Essay Film: Problems, Definitions, Textual Commitments," by Laura Rascaroli 14. "Of the History of the Essay Film: Vertov, to Varda," by Timothy Corrigan 15. "The Cinema and the Essay as a Way of Thinking," by Raymond Bellour 16. "The Essay Film: From Film Festival Favorite to Flexible Commodity Form?," by Thomas Elsaesser Part IV. Filmmakers on the Essayistic 17. "Performing Borders: Transnational Video," by Ursula Biemann 18. "Proposal for a Tussle," by Jean-Pierre Gorin 19. "The Essay as Conformism? Some Notes on Global Image Economies," by Hito Steyerl 20. "On Writing the Film Essay," by Lynne Sachs 21. "Tramp Steamer," by Ross McElwee 22. "The ABCs of the Film Essay," by Harun Farocki and Christa Blümlinger 23. "Riddles as Essay Film," by Laura Mulvey 24. "Certain Obliquenesses," by Renée Green 25. "Essay Documentary: The disembodied narrator and an unclaimed image that floats through space and time," by Rea Tajiri 26. "From Ten Thousand Waves to Lina Bo Bardi, via Kapital," by Isaac Julien Bibliography Contributors Permissions Index

Call No: 62(04) EXP
Author: Staiger, Janet; Lawton, Ben; Glasser, Marc
Source: US
Place: Pleasantville, N.Y.
Publisher: Redgrave
PubDate: 1977
PhysDes: 160 p
Series: Film studies annual ; 1977 ; 1
Subject: AESTHETICS; DIALOGUE; VERTOV, DZIGA; BARRY LYNDON (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1975); CLOWNS, I (IT/FR/GW, Federico Fellini, 1970); EDVARD MUNCH (SW/NO, Peter Watkins, 1974); FORT APACHE (US, John Ford, 1948); HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRES (FR/IT, Louis Malle & Roger Vadim & Federico Fellini, 1968); IVAN GROZNY [IVAN THE TERRIBLE] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, pt.1:1945, pt.2:1958[prod.1946]); LAST MOVIE, THE (US, Dennis Hopper, 1971); MEDIUM COOL (US, Haskell Wexler, 1969); SALAMANDRE, LA (SZ, Alain Tanner, 1971); SCEICCO BIANCO, LO (IT, Federico Fellini, 1951)
Notes: Papers from the 1977 Purdue University Conference on Film
Order Received: 2000
Order Type: Donation
LON: 4015698

Call No: 761 TOE
Author: Toeplitz, Jerzy
CorpAuthor: Australian Film and Television School. Open Program Resources
Place: [North Ryde, N.S.W.]
Publisher: Australian Film and Television School, Open Program Resources
PubDate: 1979
PhysDes: 39p. ; 29cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; VERTOV, DZIGA; GRIERSON, JOHN; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; RUTTMAN, WALTER; VEDRES, NICOLE; PARIS 1900 (FR, Nicole Vedres, 1948); MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); GRASS (US, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1926)
Summary: "This booklet contains the edited transcripts of a series of lectures given by Professor Toeplitz during a six week full-time workshop on documentary film. The workshop was for documentary filmmakers in Australia and New Zealand."
Notes: Documentary films. Lectures, speeches (ANB/PRECIS SIN 037718x); Bibliography: p.38-39
ISBN: 0642924759 : price unknown
LON: 1664997

Call No: 62 ARM
Author: Armes, Roy
Place: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Publisher: Penguin
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: 254 p. ; 18 cm
Subject: MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; REALISM IN FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; NEOREALISM; EXPRESSIONISM; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA; UNDERGROUND FILMS; ANIMATION; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; STUDIO SYSTEM; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; STARS; AUTHORSHIP; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; WESTERNS; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; MELIES, GEORGES; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; VERTOV, DZIGA; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; RENOIR, JEAN; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; BUNUEL, LUIS; RESNAIS, ALAIN; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; ANGER, KENNETH; LOACH, KENNETH; CHAPLIN, CHARLES
Summary: Explores the history of cinema by looking at three broad areas - Film Realism, Film Illusion, and Film Modernism, and describes within these areas the most important film-makers, directors and companies within the film industry.
Notes: contains index; contains bibliography with descriptions and recommendations for the books sourced.
ISBN: 0140217010
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Call No: 745.1 MAC
Author: MacBean, James Roy
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: c1975
PhysDes: viii, 339 p. : ill. ; 29 cm
Subject: REVOLUTIONARY THEMES IN FILMS; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA; REVOLUTION AND THE CINEMA; GORIN, JEAN-PIERRE; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; METZ, CHRISTIAN; VERTOV, DZIGA; WEEK-END (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968); VENT D'EST (FR/IT/GW, Jean-Luc Godard & Dziga Vertov Group, 1970); TOUT VA BIEN (FR/IT, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972); HORA DE LOS HORNOS, LA (AG, Fernado E. Solanos, 1969); PRISE DE POUVOIR PAR LOUIS XIV, LA (FR, Roberto Rossellini, 1966); WR MISTERIJE ORGANIZMA (YU/GW, Dusan Makaveyev, 1971); CHAGRIN ET LA PITIE, LE (SZ/GW, Marcel Ophuls, 1971); [DEUX] 2 OU 3 CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D'ELLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967); CHINOISE, LA (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967); MADE IN THE U.S.A. (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1966); ICE (US, Robert Kramer, 1970); CLASSE OPERAIA VA IN PARADISO, LA (IT, Elio Petri, 1971); LETTER TO JANE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972); GAI SAVOIR, LE (FR/GW, Jean-Luc Godard, 1969); BRITISH SOUNDS (UK, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Henri Roger, 1969); ONE PLUS ONE (UK, Jean-Luc Godard, 1968)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0253321891; 0253201918(pbk.)
LON: 737743
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Call No: 63 RAN
Author: Rancier, Jacques; Battista, Emiliano
Source: FR/US
Place: New York
Publisher: Berg Publishers
PubDate: 2006
PhysDes: viii, 196 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: AESTHETICS; ART AND THE CINEMA; ART CINEMA; AUTEUR THEORY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; SYMBOLISM IN FILMS; BRESSON, ROBERT; DELEUZE, GILLES; EPSTEIN, JEAN; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; LANG, FRITZ; MANN, ANTHONY; MARKER, CHRIS; MEDVEKIN, ALEXANDER; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM; OZU YASUJIRO; RAY, NICHOLAS; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; VERTOV, DZIGA; AU HASARD, BALTHAZAR (FR/SW, Robert Bresson, 1966); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); CHINOISE, LA (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967); FAUST (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Marnau, 1926); WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (US, Fritz Lang, 1955)
Summary: "Film Fables traces the history of modern cinema, moving effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang's confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann's Westerns to Ray's romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini's neo-realism to Deleuze's philosophy of the cinema and Marker's documentaries."
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 9781845201685
ID2: 291

Call No: 71(47) TAY
Author: Taylor, Richard; Christie, Ian
Edition: 1988
Place: London
Publisher: Routledge
PubDate: 1988
PhysDes: 458 pages : illustrated ; 25 cm
Subject: USSR; KULESOV, LEV; MEYERHOLD, VSEVOLOD; KOZINTSEV, GRIGORI; VERTOV, DZIGA; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; SHKLOVSKY, VICTOR; SHUB, ESTHER; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD; STALIN [J.] IN FILMS; LENIN [V.I.] IN FILMS
ISBN: 9780415052986
Donation: Adrian Miles

Call No: 802.25 FIL
Author: Geduld, Harry M, comp
Place: Bloomington, Ind.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1967
PhysDes: xviii, 302 p. ; 21 cm
Subject: VERTOV, DZIGA
LON: 675688

Call No: 802.25 FIL
Place: Harmondsworth
Publisher: Penguin
PubDate: 1967
PhysDes: 18 cm; 303 p.
Subject: AUTHORSHIP; LUMIERE, LOUIS; PORTER, EDWIN S.; SENNETT, MACK; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; VON STROHEIM, ERICH; VERTOV, DZIGA; DREYER, CARL TH.; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED; RICHARDSON, TONY; COCTEAU, JEAN; RESNAIS, ALAIN; ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN; BUNUEL, LUIS; BERGMAN, INGMAR; FELLINI, FEDERICO; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; LANG, FRITZ; WAJDA, ANDRZEJ; WELLES, ORSON; RAY, SARYAJIT; KUROSAWA AKIRA; ANDERSON, LINDSAY; LEAN, DAVID; RENOIR, JEAN; BARDEM, JUAN ANTONIO; ANGER, KENNETH
Summary: Does the making of films – a group activity – permit anything that can be called self-expression? Can a director, as the conductor of an orchestra of writers, actors, cameramen and technicians, stamp his personal vision on the films he makes? This and related questions are raised by this collection of statements made by famous directors about their art. Harry Geguld’s anthology of “patristic writings” runs from the days (in 1895) when Louis Lumiere filmed a train entering a station, by way of Charlie Chaplin’s knockabout ad-libbing, to the sophisticated ruminations of Antonioni and Bergman and the ideas behind the nouvelle vague. Here is D.W. Griffith’s scouting the very idea of talking pictures; Mack Sennett on custard pies; Eisenstein on three-dimensional film; Cocteau on the raw materials of illusion; Kurosawa on filming in Japan; Hitchcock on the macabre; and some other twenty leading directors on aspects of their work. In his introduction, Harry Geguld assesses the unique characteristics of motion pictures and comments refreshingly on the eternal controversy of “book into film”. [Taken from back cover.]
ID2: 291

Call No: 70 FEL
Author: Fell, John
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
PubDate: 1979
PhysDes: 588 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; PRODUCTION; ALEXANDROV, GROGORIO; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO; BRECHT, BERTHOLD; CAPRA, FRANK; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; DE SICA, VITTORIO; COCTEAU, JEAN; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; DREYER, CARL TH.; DISNEY, WALT; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR; EPSTEIN, JEAN; FELLINI, FEDERICO; FRANJU, GEORGES; LANG, FRITZ; MURNAU, FRIEDRICH WILHEL; Pasolini, Pier Paolo; PAUL, ROBERT; PORTER, EDWIN S.; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD; RENOIR, JEAN; RESNAIS, ALAIN; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO; THALBERG, IRVING; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; VIGO, JEAN; VISCONTI, LUCHINO; ZAVATTINI, CESARE; WELLES, ORSON; WYLER, WILLIAM; ZUKOR, ADOLPH; L'­AGE D'OR (FR, Luis Bruñell, 1930); L'ATALANTE (FR, Jean Vigo, 1930); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); BALLET MÉCANIQUE (FR, Fernand Lèger && Dudley Murphy,1934); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS (G, Robert Wiene, 1920); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); SANG D'UN POETE, LE (FR, Jean Cocteau, 1932)
Notes: Bibliography: p.546-548 Includes index
ISBN: 0030363160
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

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: 81VER KIN
Author: Vertov, Dziga, 1896-1954; Michelson, Annette
Source: US
Place: Berkeley, Ca.
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 1984
PhysDes: lxi, 344 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: ART CINEMA; CINEMATOGRAPHY; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; EDITING; INDUSTRY, FILM. USSR; NEWSREELS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; REVOLUTION AND THE CINEMA; SOCIALISM AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; VERTOV, DZIGA; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); KINOGLAZ (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1924); KOLYBELNAYA (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1937); LULLABY (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1937); THREE SONGS ABOUT LENIN (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1934); TRI PESNI O LENINE (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1934)
Summary: "Vertov's writings, collected here, range from calculated manifestoes setting forth a new, heroic version of film's potentiual to dark rumination on the inactivity forced upon him by the growing bureaucratization of the of the Soviet state and its film industry. His theory was at every point elaborated in direct, vigorous relation with practice; his doctrine of kino-eye, breaking with film's subjection to traditional narrative purposes, was a passionate call to action. Vertov's spirit of revolutionary optimism leaps from his pages. Articles, memoranda, speeches, letters, proposals for films, poured from his pen - explaining, defining, persuading. In voluminous notebooks and diaries he proposed a cinema implicated in the process of revolutionary transformation, one that would play a leading role in the construction of socialism." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes index; Filmography: p. [330]-334
ISBN: 0520046242 (cloth); 0520047605 (pbk.); 0520056302 (alk. paper)
LON: 82011189; 2248486

Call No: 802.25(47) MAR
Author: Marshall, Herbert, 1906
Place: London Boston
Publisher: Routledge & K. Paul
PubDate: 1983
PhysDes: vii, 252 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: DIRECTORS. USSR; USSR; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD; VERTOV, DZIGA; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0710092873 : $25.00
LON: 2520774

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: 761 CHA
Author: Chanan, Michael
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: viii, 280 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Subject: 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. " - BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781844572267
Contents: 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

Call No: 802 PRO v.6
Author: Boorman, John, 1933; Donohue, Walter
Place: London
Publisher: Faber and Faber
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: 346 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Subject: DICILLO, TOM; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF; HAWKS, HOWARD; VERTOV, DZIGA; BOORMAN, JOHN; FIGGIS, MIKE; BENDER, LAWRENCE; COPPOLA, ELEANOR; DONEN, STANLEY; IMAMURA, SHOHEI; TOWNE, ROBERT; COEN, JOEL & ETHAN; MURCH, WALTER; DAVIES, TERENCE; MARTIN, STEVE; MACKINNON, GILLIES; BROWN, KARL; YOUNG, FREDDIE; KELBER, MICHEL; STORARO, VITTORIO; EDWARDS, ERIC ALAN; CECCHI D'AMICO, SUSO; KIDS (US, Larry Clark, 1995); BOX OF MOONLIGHT (US, Tom DiCillo, 1996)
ISBN: 0571178537(pbk)
LON: abn96395771; 12885714

Call No: 81(049.3)EIS NES
Author: Nesbet, Anne
Edition: 1st ed.
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: I.B Taurus
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: ix, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: U.S.S.R IN FILMS; RUSSIANS IN FILMS; POLITICAL FILMS; HISTORICAL FILMS; STALIN [J.] IN FILMS; LENIN [V.I.] IN FILMS; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CIRCUS AND THE CINEMA; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; LITERATURE AND THE CINEMA; MYTH AND THE CINEMA; AESTHETICS; ALEXANDROV, GROGORIJ; BABEL, ISAAK; BRETON, ANDRE; DISNEY, WALT; FREUD, SIGMUND; HEGEL, GEORG, WILHELM, FRIEDRICH; SHKLOVSKY, VICTOR; SHUMIATSKII, BORIS; SINCLAIR, UPTON; SONTAG, SUSAN; TISSE, EDUARD; TOLSTOY, LEV; TROTSKY, LEON; VERTOV, DZIGA; WELLS, H.G; SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (US, David Hand, 1937); STACHKA [STRIKE] (UR, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925); IVAN GROZNY [IVAN THE TERRIBLE] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, pt.1:1945, pt.2:1958[prod.1946]); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); STRUCTURALISM; RUSSIA; THEORY
Summary: Based on extensive research in the archives of legendary Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein, this book explores his wide ranging consumption of high and low culture and his wide ranging experience in ‘thinking in pictures’. Savage Junctures plays close attention to the multiple contexts within which Eisenstein’s films evolved. Eisenstein was particularly interested in the possibilities of visual thinking and, in this spirit; each chapter addresses the question of his image based philosophy from a different perspective. [Taken from back cover].
ISBN: 1850433305

Call No: 62 SCR
CorpAuthor: Society for Education in Film and Television
Place: London
Publisher: Society for Education in Film and Television
PubDate: 1977
PhysDes: 411 p. ; 22 cm
Subject: VERTOV, DZIGA
Notes: Includes bibliographies
ISBN: 0900676078
LON: 11912240; 2530839

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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Call No: 71(47)SOW
CorpAuthor: Kommunales Kino Freiburg
Place: Freiburg
Publisher: [Kommunales Kino Freiburg]
PubDate: [1962?]
PhysDes: 16 p. ; 30 cm
Subject: USSR; VERTOV, DZIGA; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR; MEDVEKIN, ALEXANDER
Summary: Photocopied program notes on Soviet silent film (12 p.) + notes marked "Stockholm 1959" (2 + 2 p.) "Films de la Cinematheque Francaise" and "Films de provenance etrangere".
Language: German; French

Call No: 761 REN
Author: Renov, Michael
Place: Minneapolis, MN
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: xxiv, 286 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Series: Visible evididence: volume 16
Subject: DOCUMENTARIES; CINEMA VERITE; BARTHES, ROLAND; BRECHT, BERTHOLD; DERRIDA, JACQUES; FOUCAULT, MICHEL; FREUD, SIGMUND; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; IVENS, JORIS; LACAN, JACQUES; MCLUHAN, MARSHALL; MEKAS, JONAS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WEXLER, HASKELL; MEDIUM COOL (US, Haskell Wexler, 1969); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Summary: "Michael Renov focuses on how documentary filmmaking has become an important means for both examining and constructing selfhood. Renov analyzes films in which the subjectivity of the filmmaker is expressly defined, from Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool to Jonas Mekas's Lost, Lost, Lost, and contemplates such nontraditional modes of autobiographical practice as the essay film, the video confession, and the personal Web page." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: Essays either previously published or previously presented at various conferences. Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780816634415
Donation: Adrian Miles
Contents: Part 1: Social subjectivity -- 1: Early newsreel : the construction of a political imaginary for the new left -- 2. The "real" in fiction : Brecht, Medium cool, and the refusal of incorporation -- 3. Warring images : stereotype and American representations of the Japanese, 1941-1991 -- 4. Lost, lost, lost : Mekas as essayist -- Part 2: The subject in theory -- 5. Charged vision : the place of desire in documentary film theory -- 6. The subject in history : the new autobiography in film and video -- 7. Filling up the hole in the real : death and mourning in contemporary documentary film and video -- 8. Documentary disavowals and the digital -- 9. Technology and ethnographic dialogue -- 10. The address to the other : ethical discourse in Everything's for you -- Part three: modes of subjectivity -- 11. New subjectivities : documentary and self-representation in the post-verite age -- 12. The electronic essay -- 13. Video confessions -- 14. Domestic ethnography and the construction of the "other" self. -- 15. The end of autobiography or new beginnings? (or, everything, you never knew you would know about someone you will probably never meet).

Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: VERTOV, DZIGA

Call No: 761.2 ISS
Author: Issari, M. Ali (Mohammad Ali); Paul, Doris A. (Doris Atkinson) joint author
Place: Metuchen, N.J.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
PubDate: 1979
PhysDes: vi, 208 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: CINEMA VERITE; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARIES; NOUVELLE VAGUE; VERTOV, DZIGA; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; ROUCH, JEAN; LEACOCK, RICHARD; RUSPOLI, MARIO; ROZIER, JACQUES; MARKER, CHRIS; MAYSLES, ALBERT; JERSEY, WILLIAM C.
Notes: Includes index; Filmography: p. 179-185; Bibliography: p. 186-198
ISBN: 0810812533
LON: 79020110; 1491302 1830040