[PDF] Documentary Film Classics eBook

Author : William Rothman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780521456814

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A study of classic documentary film.

Author : Lucas Hilderbrand
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1551525208

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Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1991) captures the energy, ambition, wit, and struggle of African-American and Latino participants in the 1980s New York drag ball scene. This book contextualizes the film within the longer history of drag balls, the practices of documentary, the fervor of the culture wars, and the development of queer theory and critical race studies.

Author : Paul Rotha
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2017-11-21
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ISBN : 9780331583892

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Excerpt from Documentary Film Juncture becomes a matter for desperate choice. The film may be used for propaganda and, so focused are we on purposes these days, that all is propaganda. But which? If the film lends its dramatic aid to any one of these powers which have religious mania in them and drive men mad, it is propaganda of the devil. If the film is devoted to saying how men live and should live and where the creative forces that fulfil men's honest needs reside, then it is propaganda that has its roots in a continuing reality and is capable of beauty. Some will take the path of partisan excitement. We shall have pretty pictures of pennants flying and guns pop ping and rhetoric, the jingling harness of expression, will be the keynote of their films. Others will resist this defeat. The best work the documentary film has done has been to describe the work of workmen, the work of scientists and organisers in peace time pur suits, and the great work of social reconstruction which is going on even while the maniac armies march over us. These others will attempt to maintain this progress, so that, perhaps, when the armies have passed, a hand ful of grain will be left to cast into the battered ground. They will insist that the propagation of ideas must not depart from the deeper needs of public education; and, keeping their roots in this continuing reality, they can not fail, sometimes, to be poets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Barry Hampe
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780805081817

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Outlines each step in creating documentaries, from conception to final film, and offers advice on capturing human behavior and recreating past events, with advice on how to get started in the field, a section on researching and developing a project, and current resources.

Author : Taylor Downing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838717455

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Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia (1938) is one of the most controversial films ever made. Capitalising on the success of Triumph of the Will (1935), her propaganda film for the Nazi Party, Riefenstahl secured Hitler's approval for her grandiose plans to film the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The result was a work as notorious for its politics as celebrated for its aesthetic power. This revised edition includes new material on Riefenstahl's film-making career before Olympia and her close relationship with Hitler. Taylor Downing also discusses newly-available evidence on the background to the film's production that conclusively proves that the film was directly commissioned by Hitler and funded through Goebbels's Ministry of Propaganda and not, as Riefenstahl later claimed, commissioned independently from the Nazi state by the Olympic authorities. In writing this edition, Taylor Downing has been given access to a magnificent new restoration of the original version of the film by the International Olympic Committee.