Documentary Film Classics offers close readings on a number of major films, such as Nanook of the North, Land Without Bread, Night and Fog, Chronicle of a Summer and Don't Look Back. Spanning the history of the documentary film tradition, William Rothman analyzes the philosophical and historical issues and themes implicit in these works. Designed to guide film students through the "texts" of a wide range of documentaries, his readings also focus on the achievements of these works as films per se.
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Documentary Film Classics offers close readings on a number of major films, such as Nanook of the North,,Land Without Bread, Night and Fog, Chronicle of a Summer and Don't Look Back. Spanning the history of the documentary film tradition, William Rothman analyzes the philosophical and historical issues and themes implicit in these works. Designed to guide film students through the "texts" of a wide range of documentaries, his readings also focus on the achievements of these works as films per se.
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GOOD GUIDE FOR FILM STUDENTS,
By OZKAN OZ (ESKISEHIR TURKEY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Documentary Film Classics (Cambridge Studies in Film) (Paperback)
It is a usefull guide for especially film students. And if you are also interested about the mind of making documentaries, i strongly recommend you to get this book. You can find readings about on some main documentaries like 'Nanook of The North', 'Chronicle of a Summer'... I deeply interested in philosophical analysis of the examples of cinema verite. This is my special favourite interest of field on documentaries.
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The widely distributed video cassette of Nanook of the North prefaces the film with a title that states, accurately enough, that the film "is generally regarded as the work from which all subsequent efforts to bring real life to the screen have stemmed." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pitiful human wrecks, one existing world, shared anthropology, land without bread, uninterrupted fear, prevailing fiction, classical movies, place behind the camera, remarriage comedies, least ironically, profound side, endless cry, stolid silence, own private reasons, crisis structure, offscreen voice, mock documentary, long black veil, classical cinema, lost highway, fever sufferers, direct cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lillian Gish, Happy Mother's Day, Monterey Pop, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, True Heart Susie, Subterranean Homesick Blues, Albert Hall, Hank Williams, Ravi Shankar, Wonderful Life, Angel of Death, Hattie Carroll, Old Anai, Paul Williams, United States, Baby Blue, Jimi Hendrix, Saturday Evening Post, Stanley Cavell, The River, Adam's Rib, Albert Grossman, Depeche Mode, Pale Fox New!
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The widely distributed video cassette of Nanook of the North prefaces the film with a title that states, accurately enough, that the film "is generally regarded as the work from which all subsequent efforts to bring real life to the screen have stemmed." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pitiful human wrecks, one existing world, shared anthropology, land without bread, uninterrupted fear, prevailing fiction, classical movies, place behind the camera, remarriage comedies, least ironically, profound side, endless cry, stolid silence, own private reasons, crisis structure, offscreen voice, mock documentary, long black veil, classical cinema, lost highway, fever sufferers, direct cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lillian Gish, Happy Mother's Day, Monterey Pop, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, True Heart Susie, Subterranean Homesick Blues, Albert Hall, Hank Williams, Ravi Shankar, Wonderful Life, Angel of Death, Hattie Carroll, Old Anai, Paul Williams, United States, Baby Blue, Jimi Hendrix, Saturday Evening Post, Stanley Cavell, The River, Adam's Rib, Albert Grossman, Depeche Mode, Pale Fox New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition by Stanley Cavell in Front Matter, page 36, and Back Matter
- America Is by Drew on page 123, and Back Matter
- Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film (Cambridge Studies in Film) by Carl R. Plantinga in Back Matter
- Rules of the Game by Jean Renoir on page 55
- Another Frank Capra (Cambridge Studies in Film) by Leland Poague in Front Matter
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- The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology by Anna Grimshaw in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Direct Cinema of David and Albert Maysles by Jonathan B. Vogels on page 161, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia (Cambridge Studies in Film) by Vera Dika in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film (Cambridge Studies in Film) by Carl R. Plantinga in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema by Ivone Margulies on page 162
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