| Description |
382 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
A Dutton paperback original |
|
Dutton paperback original.
|
| Contents |
[Part] I : The nonfiction film idea -- First principles of documentary (1932-1934) ; The nature of propaganda (1942) / John Grierson -- Some principles of documentary (1935) / Paul Rotha -- The documentary film (1946) / Sir Stephen Tallents -- Free cinema (1950) / Lindsay Anderson -- The documentary idea : a frame of reference (1965) / A. William Bluem -- [Part] II : The nonfiction film and history -- The documentary idea : 1942 (1942) / John Grierson -- Time marches on the screen (1968, 1973) / Robert T. Elson -- "This is America" : documentaries for theaters, 1942-1951 (1973) / Richard Meran Barsam -- World War II : armed forces documentary (1973) / Richard Dyer MacCann -- The documentary and Hollywood (1946) / Philip Dunne -- British documentaries in the war (1947) / H. Forsyth Hardy -- Film and foreign policy : the USIA, 1962-1967 (1973) / Richard Dyer MacCann -- The documentary heritage (1962) / Burton Benjamin -- [Part] III : The nonfiction film artist -- Robert J. Flaherty : 1884-1951 (1965) / Helen Van Dongen -- Robert Flaherty : the man in the iron myth (1973) / Richard Corliss -- Alberto Cavalcanti (1955) / Emir Rodriguez Monegal -- Leni Riefenstahl : artifice and truth in a world apart (1975) / Richard Meran Barsam -- Only connect : some aspects of the work of Humphrey Jennings (1954) / Lindsay Anderson -- Thirty years of social inquiry : an interview with Willard Van Dyke (1965) / Harrison Engle -- An interview with Fred Wiseman (1974) / Ira Halberstadt -- Documenting America (1970) / David Denby -- [Part] IV : Making a nonfiction film -- The interpretive camera in documentary films (1946) / Willard Van Dyke -- Notes on the making of Olympia (1958) / Leni Riefenstahl -- Chronicles of human experience : Dead birds (1969) / Robert Gardner -- Spain and The Spanish earth (1969) / Joris Ivens. film idea -- Nonfiction film and history -- Nonfiction film artist -- Making a nonfiction film |
| Analysis |
Documentary films History and criticism |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 379-382 |
| Subject |
Documentary films -- History and criticism.
|
|
Documentary films.
|
| Author |
Barsam, Richard Meran.
|
| LC no. |
76374882 |
| ISBN |
0525474250 |
|
