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A new take on documentary film that brings into conversation a wide range of well-known filmmakers and visual artists.

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A critical review of documentary in the 21st century.

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A critical review of documentary in the 21st century.

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The past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, March of the Penguins, and An Inconvenient Truth. And as news articles proclaim a new era in the history of documentary films, more and more new directors are making their first film a nonfiction one.

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A personal perspective on documentary filmmaking, based on the authors own experiences and reflections on the genre, with a particular emphasis on observational cinema. It includes both practical insights into filmmaking methods and discussions of the intellectual, ethical and emotional challenges of attempting to portray others on film.

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Introduces the world of low-budget, DIY documentary filmmaking. This book features incisive and helpful interviews with dozens of industry professionals, on subjects as diverse as interview techniques, the NBC News Archive, music rights, setting up your own company, camera hire, filmmaking ethics, and online marketing and distribution.

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This book of essays brings together his latest ideas on filming, documentary, anthropology and the art of cinema, based on his practice as an award-winning maker of ethnographic films. -- .

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This book of essays brings together his latest ideas on filming, documentary, anthropology and the art of cinema, based on his practice as an award-winning maker of ethnographic films. -- .

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The General Post Office (GPO) Film Unit sat at the creative epicentre of Britain in the 1930s. Here, the insights of an archivist, a musicologist, a design historian, a sports historian, a geographer and a postman among others have been edited into a rich critical archaeology of a compelling moment in cinematic history.

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Interest in documentary filmmaking has never been greater. There are more documentaries now playing in mainstream cinemas than ever before. The Documentary Masterclass offers an engaging insight into the techniques of ten leading documentary directors.

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"Examines the way that (human and other) voices in documentary not only serve rhetorical and political purposes, but also create meaning by engaging the audience through affective and aesthetic registers"--

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Watching the world extends the reach of documentary studies by investigating recent instances of screen documentary and the uses made of them by audiences -- .

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Examines how contemporary documentary films depict the individual performing the self.

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A study of the Maysles' 1975 documentary Grey Gardens in the BFI Film Classics series.

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Analyses documentary representations of perpetrators and discusses why these representations matter.

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Explores the representation of pop musicians and music making in documentary film and television since 1980.

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This edited volume is an exploration of what the craft of filmmaking brings to social science research. It invites readers to appropriate and critically examine the power of imagery and sound in narrating (beyond) human experience across cultures and societies around the world.

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Released in 1968, the Maysles' Salesman is widely acknowledged as a landmark in documentary film. In his compelling and detailed study, J.M. Tyree discusses the film's various technical and artistic innovations, tracing their theoretical roots and enduring influence.

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'When you film a documentary, life comes barrelling at you like a wild bear, so the filmic equivalent of the fight-or-flight mechanism takes over.' Mark Cousins

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Explores the representation of pop musicians and music making in documentary film and television since 1980.