Documentary Film Reader : History, Theory, Criticism by Jonathan Kahana (2016, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-10019973965X

ISBN-139780199739653

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Number of Pages1056 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameDocumentary Film Reader : History, Theory, Criticism

Publication Year2016

SubjectFilm / Genres / Documentary, Film / History & Criticism, Film & Video

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt, Performing Arts

AuthorJonathan Kahana

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.9 in

Item Weight60 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width9.9 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

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Dewey Edition23

Reviews"The volume offers a rich and varied corpus of works that includes scholarly essays, film criticism, manifestos, interviews, letters, and personal recollections ... [the editors] have performed tremendous acts of scholarly service ... [presenting] a rich mosaic of writing on film form, politics, and practice that order the discursive field while still allowing the unruly documentary construct room to breathe." -- Tanya Goldman, Cinema Journal"This collection of crucial and often hard-to-find writings will be of immense help in identifying some of the key preoccupations of documentary and dispersing some of its most persistent myths." --David MacDougall, author of The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses"Kahana puts flesh to the bare bones of film history. These are essays that make the present vibrate with the steady drumbeat of a past we may not fully know but dare not entirely forget. It will serve as a standard reference for what has gone before and a powerful stimulus for what has yet to come well into the foreseeable future." --Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to Documentary, 2nd Edition"Gathering such a range of thought on non-fiction film theory and practice in one volume is simply phenomenal. This is a must-read book, giving precious insight into the ideologies, trends, and evolutions of the documentary genre throughout the world, from its emergence to the present." --Jean-Marie Teno, director of Africa, I Will Fleece You (Afrique, je te plumerai)"Kahana has curated a rambunctious oratorio of a reader, abundant with sharp discoveries and startling wisdom and surprising conversations across decades and borders. Every aspiring filmmaker should keep a copy in her backpack." --John Greyson, director of Fig Trees, "This collection of crucial and often hard-to-find writings will be of immense help in identifying some of the key preoccupations of documentary and dispersing some of its most persistent myths." --David MacDougall, author of The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses "Kahana puts flesh to the bare bones of film history. These are essays that make the present vibrate with the steady drumbeat of a past we may not fully know but dare not entirely forget. It will serve as a standard reference for what has gone before and a powerful stimulus for what has yet to come well into the foreseeable future." --Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to Documentary, 2nd Edition "Gathering such a range of thought on non-fiction film theory and practice in one volume is simply phenomenal. This is a must-read book, giving precious insight into the ideologies, trends, and evolutions of the documentary genre throughout the world, from its emergence to the present." --Jean-Marie Teno, director of Africa, I Will Fleece You (Afrique, je te plumerai) "Kahana has curated a rambunctious oratorio of a reader, abundant with sharp discoveries and startling wisdom and surprising conversations across decades and borders. Every aspiring filmmaker should keep a copy in her backpack." --John Greyson, director of Fig Trees, "The volume offers a rich and varied corpus of works that includes scholarly essays, film criticism, manifestos, interviews, letters, and personal recollections ... [the editors] have performed tremendous acts of scholarly service ... [presenting] a rich mosaic of writing on film form, politics, and practice that order the discursive field while still allowing the unruly documentary construct room to breathe." -- Tanya Goldman, Cinema Journal "This collection of crucial and often hard-to-find writings will be of immense help in identifying some of the key preoccupations of documentary and dispersing some of its most persistent myths." --David MacDougall, author of The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and the Senses "Kahana puts flesh to the bare bones of film history. These are essays that make the present vibrate with the steady drumbeat of a past we may not fully know but dare not entirely forget. It will serve as a standard reference for what has gone before and a powerful stimulus for what has yet to come well into the foreseeable future." --Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to Documentary, 2nd Edition "Gathering such a range of thought on non-fiction film theory and practice in one volume is simply phenomenal. This is a must-read book, giving precious insight into the ideologies, trends, and evolutions of the documentary genre throughout the world, from its emergence to the present." --Jean-Marie Teno, director of Africa, I Will Fleece You (Afrique, je te plumerai) "Kahana has curated a rambunctious oratorio of a reader, abundant with sharp discoveries and startling wisdom and surprising conversations across decades and borders. Every aspiring filmmaker should keep a copy in her backpack." --John Greyson, director of Fig Trees

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SynopsisThe Documentary Film Reader brings together an expansive range of writing by scholars, critics, historians, and filmmakers to provide a stimulating foundational text for students and others who want to undertake study of nonfiction film. While documentary has long been a mainstay of universities and cinematheques, its popularity of late has grown tenfold as reality television has flourished and as the ranks of novice filmmakers have swelled. There are now dozens of film festivals dedicated exclusively to documentaries. This reader presents an international perspective on the most significant developments and debates from several decades of critical writing about documentary. It integrates historical and theoretical approaches, offering a collection that is particularly well suited to meet the needs of large undergraduate survey courses on nonfiction film, as well as providing sufficient depth for graduate classes., Bringing together an expansive range of writing by scholars, critics, historians, and filmmakers, The Documentary Film Reader presents an international perspective on the most significant developments and debates from several decades of critical writing about documentary. Each of the book's seven sections covers a distinct period in the history of documentary, collecting both contemporary and retrospective views of filmmaking in the era. And each section is prefaced by an introductory essay that explains its design and provides critical context. Painstakingly selected from the archives of more than a hundred years of cinema practice and theory, the essays, reviews, interviews, manifestos, and ephemera gathered in this volume suit the needs and interests of the beginning student, the advanced scholar, the casual reader, and the working documentarian., The Documentary Film Reader brings together an expansive range of writing by scholars, critics, historians, and filmmakers to provide a stimulating foundational text for students and others who want to undertake study of nonfiction film.

LC Classification NumberPN1995.9.D6D5755