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The documentary idea : a critical history of English-language documentary film and video / created by Jack C. Ellis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1989.Description: x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0132171422 :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9 ELL
Contents:
What is documentary? Beginnings : the Americans and popular anthropology, 1922-1929 Beginnings : the Soviets and political indoctrination, 1922-1929 Beginnings : European avant-gardists and artistic experimentation, 1922-1929 Institutionalization : Great Britain, 1929-1939 Institutionalization : United States, 1930-1941 Expansion : Great Britain, 1939-1945 Expansion : Canada, 1939-1945 Expansion : United States, 1941-1945 Extensions : influence of wartime documentary on postwar fiction films, 1945-1952 The unfulfilled promise : postwar documentary, 1945-1952 A new channel : documentary for television, 1951- British free cinema and social-realist features, 1956-1963 Direct cinema and cinéma vérité, 1960- A cross-cultural comparison : three auteurs of French documentary, 1961- Blurring of conventional distinctions among fiction, documentary and experimental, 1968- Documentary in North America, 1967- Documentary in the United States in the immediate post-World War II years
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Book Book Main Library Open Shelf PN1995. 9 ELL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 162251 Available BK143855

Includes bibliographies and index.

What is documentary? Beginnings : the Americans and popular anthropology, 1922-1929 Beginnings : the Soviets and political indoctrination, 1922-1929 Beginnings : European avant-gardists and artistic experimentation, 1922-1929 Institutionalization : Great Britain, 1929-1939 Institutionalization : United States, 1930-1941 Expansion : Great Britain, 1939-1945 Expansion : Canada, 1939-1945 Expansion : United States, 1941-1945 Extensions : influence of wartime documentary on postwar fiction films, 1945-1952 The unfulfilled promise : postwar documentary, 1945-1952 A new channel : documentary for television, 1951- British free cinema and social-realist features, 1956-1963 Direct cinema and cinéma vérité, 1960- A cross-cultural comparison : three auteurs of French documentary, 1961- Blurring of conventional distinctions among fiction, documentary and experimental, 1968- Documentary in North America, 1967- Documentary in the United States in the immediate post-World War II years

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