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Documentary Film

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Description for Documentary Film Paperback. .
Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes readers along the diverse paths of documentary history and charts the lively, often fierce debates among filmmakers and scholars about the best ways to represent reality and to tell the truths worth telling. Beginning with an overview of the central issues of documentary filmmaking--its definitions ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Very Short Introductions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195182705
SKU
V9780195182705
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About Patricia Aufderheide
Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C., and founder-director of its Center for Social Media. She received the career achievement award for scholarship from the International Documentary Association in 2006 and has served as a Sundance Film Festival juror and as a board member of the Independent Television Service. She is ... Read more

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Always clear and concise... a welcome addition to the Very Short Introductions series.
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