Betsy A. McLane

A New History of Documentary Film (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A New History of Documentary Film includes new research that offers a fresh way to understand how the field began and grew. Retaining the original edition's core structure, there is added emphasis of the interplay among various approaches to documentaries and the people who made them. This edition also clearly explains the ways that interactions among the shifting forces of economics, technology, and artistry shape the form.

New to this edition:
- An additional chapter that brings the story of English language documentary to the present day
- Increased coverage of women and people of color in documentary production
- Streaming
- Animated documentaries
- List of documentary filmmakers, organized chronologically by the years of their activity in the field

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501385148
• Artikelnr.: 66292111

Autorenporträt

Betsy A. McLane, Ph.D. is the author of A New History of Documentary Film. She was Executive Director of the International Documentary Association for 8 years. Dr. McLane was a member of the faculties of Loyola Marymount University, Emerson College, The University of Vermont, and Southern Oregon University, USA. She is a member of the Documentary Branch of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and was the first woman President of the University Film and Video Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction 1. Considering Documentary 2. Visual
Anthropology-Humanities Studies/Exploitation 3. Soviet Formalism 4.
Propaganda Definitions & Making Judgments 5. Government Agencies and WWII
6. Newsreels 1910-1955 7. Free Cinema 8. New Left in Europe, Canada and US
9. US Public Television/Corporation for Public Broadcasting 10. Early Cable
and Satellite Television 11. Theatrical Documentary 12. New Subjects at the
Turn of the Century 13. Streaming 14. Animation in Documentary Conclusions
and Future Possibilities Documentary Filmmakers Biography Index