"Introduction to Documentary" provides a one-of-a-kind overview of the most important topics and issues in documentary history and criticism. Designed for students in any field that makes use of visual evidence and persuasive strategies, from the law to anthropology, and from history to journalism, this book spells out the distinguishing qualities ...
This collection features essays by 27 film scholars from a wide range of perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender and representation.
Film teachers and students will welcome this new anthology, which makes available in one source a comprehensive selection of recent theoretical work on film, including many articles difficult to locate in the scattered literature. The contents are drawn almost entirely from the publications of the past fifteen years, and include work by the most ...
In this thoughtful introduction, Nichols provides a context for the paradoxes that confront film studies today. He shows how shared methods and approaches continue to stimulate much of the best writing about film, points to common problems most critics and theorists have tried to resolve, and describes the internal contradictions that have ...
"Representing Reality" is the first book to offer a conceptual overview of documentary filmmaking practice. It addresses numerous social issues and how they are presented to the viewer by means of style, rhetoric, and narrative technique. The volume poses questions about the relationship of the documentary tradition to power, the body, authority, ...
Offering a unique eight-week program that can help any company create a #1 brand, this down-to-earth guide explains that by focusing on the one big idea, businesses can make people really want their product or service.
Regarded as one of the founders of the postwar American independent cinema, the legendary Maya Deren was a poet, photographer, ethnographer, filmmaker and impresario. Her efforts to promote an independent cinema have inspired filmmakers for over fifty years. "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1943) ranks among the most widely viewed of all avant-garde ...
"Blurred Boundaries" explores decisive moments when the traditional boundaries of fiction/nonfiction, truth and falsehood blur. Nichols argues that a history of social representation in film, television and video requires an understanding of the fate of both contemporary and older work. Traditionally, film history and cultural studies sought to ...
This informative guide showcases 23 exciting countries in six different regions: Europe, Africa, Asia, Central America, South America, and French Polynesia. Full of first-person accounts of parents and their children travelling in harmony and discovering exotic cultures, this travel resource includes not only information on where to go, but ...
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Ernest Callenbach, Editor; Mark Crispin Miller, Brian Henderson, Bill Nichols, Michael Dempsey, William Johnson, Adam Garbicz...
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Edition: First edition thus
Binding: Original Wraps
Publisher: University of California Press,
Date Published: 1975.
Description: Near Fine. Single issue. Octavo magazine, 8 1/4" tall, 64 pages, wire saddle stitch, stiff pictorial cover. A near fine, clean, neat soft cover with light shelf wear; binding tight, paper white. Articles, interviews and essays. read more
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Bob Z (R. Langston Zark), Editor: Ace Backwards, Andrew Gettler, Charles Pinion, Leonard Nichols, Blacky Hix, Bill Shields,...
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Binding: Side-Stapled
Publisher: Artists and Writers Underground
Date Published: 1988
Description: Very Good Plus. Periodical. 8.5" x 11" 67 pp. Circulation and frequency unstated. Xerox production. Punk litzine featuring poetry prose, art, music and poetry reviews, etc. Light edge and corner wear. Bit of sunning about margins of covers. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Interim Books
Date Published: 1967
Description: 7p., two illustrations, 8.5x11 inches, one page backlist, very good first edition in stapled, red, white and blue wraps. [1/220 copies]. read more
Description: Used: Very Good. Volume II; thick trade paperback; pages clean, tight, unmarked; binding sound, spine uncreased; a bump has caused a crease at the bottom fore-edge corner of the back cover and the last 10 pages; book is very slightly curled; previous owner's name on flyleaf; on its way to you the same or next day in bubblewrap; email confirmation; standard mail takes 4-14 days; priority mail takes 2-5 days; international orders go by airmail (6-10 days). read more
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