Nonfiction Film: A Critical History Revised and Expanded"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 |
Contents
Foundations of the FROM MEMORY TO MOVEMENT | 3 |
The First Films | 17 |
The Lumières and Thomas A Edison | 25 |
191418 | 32 |
Exploration Romanticism | 42 |
THE SOVIET NATURALIST TRADITION | 55 |
Walther Ruttmann | 61 |
Esther Shub and the Compilation Film | 75 |
PART FOUR 11 British Nonfiction Film after | 241 |
The World Is Rich | 244 |
Every Day Except Christmas | 253 |
European Asian and Canadian Nonfiction | 255 |
France | 261 |
The Great Adventure | 269 |
ASIA | 270 |
American Nonfiction Film after | 276 |
Empire Marketing Board Film Unit | 81 |
Documentary Films | 87 |
BEGINNINGS OF THE FILM ON ART | 113 |
Leni Riefenstahl | 126 |
193042 | 146 |
The Plow That Broke the Plains 1936 | 153 |
Robert Flaherty and The Land 1942 | 159 |
This is America 194251 | 165 |
PART THREE 8 British Films for World War II | 173 |
Target for Tonight | 181 |
Training Films for Civilians and the Armed Forces | 186 |
They Also Serve | 190 |
Combat Films | 192 |
A Diary for Timothy | 197 |
European and Asian Films | 200 |
Victory in the West Sieg im Westen | 204 |
Italy | 206 |
Vichy Government Propaganda Films | 212 |
The Battle of the Rail La bataille du rail | 213 |
AMERICAN PROPAGANDA AND COUNTER | 218 |
The Cummington Story | 222 |
Incentive Films | 229 |
The Battle of San Pietro | 232 |
Robert Flaherty and Louisiana Story 1948 | 282 |
Louisiana Story | 283 |
N Y N Y | 290 |
Continuing Traditions | 300 |
AMERICAN NONFICTION FILM OUTSIDE | 310 |
National Defense | 317 |
CANADIAN FILM | 323 |
Warrendale | 326 |
Tradition and Change in the 1970s | 329 |
Christos Valley Curtain | 334 |
Meat | 341 |
The Sorrow and the Pity | 347 |
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING | 349 |
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN FILMS ON ART | 353 |
Harlan County U S A | 359 |
Films by Lesbians and Gay | 366 |
Silent Pioneers | 368 |
Notes | 381 |
Works Cited | 423 |
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