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Nonfiction Film
Richard Barsam
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Description for Nonfiction Film
Paperback. Covers almost one hundred years in the worldwide development of the non-fiction film, from the first factual films of 1895 to the cinema of the 1980s. All the important non-fiction film movements are discussed, as are outstanding non-fiction filmmakers. Num Pages: 504 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 495 x 31. Weight in Grams: 768.
"Richard Barsam has given us as comprehensive a study of the origins and development of the nonfiction mode in motion pictures as we are ever likely to have in one volume. He draws on all the major written sources and many which are little known, and he shares with us many eloquent descriptions of the films themselves, giving us a valuable textbook." —Richard Dyer MacCann
" . . . superb work . . . " —Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253207067
SKU
V9780253207067
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Ref
99-1
About Richard Barsam
RICHARD M. BARSAM is Provost of the Pratt Institute. He is author of The Vision of Robert Flaherty: The Artist as Myth and Filmmaker, Nonfiction Film Theory and Criticism, Filmguide to "Triumph of the Will," and In the Dark: A Primer for the Movies.
Reviews for Nonfiction Film
"Richard Barsam has given us as comprehensive a study of the origins and development of the non-fiction mode in motion pictures as we are ever likely to have in one volume. He draws on all the major written sources and many which are little known, and he shares with us many eloquent descriptions of the films themselves, giving us a ... Read more