TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ellis,Jack C.
TI  - The documentary idea: a critical history of English-language documentary film and video 
SN  - 0132171422 :
AV  - PN1995.9 ELL 
PY  - 1989///
CY  - Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
PB  - Prentice Hall
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - 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
ER  -