Documentary
By: by Dave Saunders.
Series: Routledge film guidebooks
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415473095; 9780415473101; 9780203852682
Subjects: Documentary films -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A troubled and difficult art : a brief introduction to non-fiction film. The D word: definitions, obligations and functions; title: Major trends, movements and voices; title: Reading non-fiction : case studies, concepts and criticism. Pioneers : Nanook of the North (1922) : narrativising the real, The man with the movie camera (1929) : montage and ideology, Night mail (1936) : the poetics and politics of class; title: Bards : Night and fog (1955) : articulating the unspeakable, My Winnipeg (2006) : a city of the mind, Waltz with Bashir (2008) : conflict and memory; title: Performers : Tarnation (2003) : performance and autobiography, Sicko (2007) : Michael Moore, documentary superstar, Say my name (2009), Anvil : the story of Anvil (2009) : rockumentary revivals; title: Conclusion : new challenges, territories and directions.