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Nonfiction Film:

A Critical History
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Indiana University Press, 1992 - Performing Arts - 482 pages

"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

  

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Contents

PART ONE 1 Reality Perceived and Recorded
3
The First Films
17
The Lumieres and Thomas A Edison
25
Exploration Romanticism
42
THE SOVIET NATURALIST TRADITION
55
Walther Ruttmann
61
Esther Shub and the Compilation Film
75
Empire Marketing Board Film Unit
81
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

Documentary Films
87
BEGINNINGS OF THE FILM ON ART
113
Leni Riefenstahl
126
Man of Aran 1934
140
193042
146
The United States Film Service
157
The March of Time 193551
163
191418
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
Silent Pioneers
368
Films by Lesbians and Cay
370
Works Cited
423
Index of Film Titles
441
Hour of the Furnaces La bora de los homos 373
450
Index of Names
467
Copyright

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References from web pages

JSTOR: Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film
Nonfiction Film: A Critical History. ny: Dutton, 1973. Teachers of documentary film cours- es now have two history texts from which to choose. ...
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Documentary and Ethnographic Film: A Bibliography of Books and ...
Nonfiction Film; A Critical History. Foreword by Richard Dyer maccann. [1st ed.]. New York, Dutton, 1973. UCB Main PN1995.9.D6 B38: UCB Moffitt PN1995.9. ...
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Fundació "La Caixa"
Nonfiction Film: A Critical History / Richad M. Barsam ... Títol: Nonfiction Film: A Critical History / Richad M. Barsam. Publicació: Bloomington [etc. ...
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BIBLIOGRAFIA BASICA
Nonfiction Film: a critical history. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. BORDWELL, David. El arte cinematográfico. Barcelona: Ed. Paidós, 1995. ...
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Comunicación y Sociedad
BARSAM, Richard M., Nonfiction film. A Critical History, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1974. BARSAM, Richard M., The Vision of Robert Flaherty: The ...
www.unav.es/ cys/ xvii2/ proteger/ hernandez.html

Die Spitze des Eisberges: “Operation Sunrise”: Die Produktion ...
Meran: Nonfiction Film. A Critical History. London, 1974. S.4. Der Vorwurf, dass ein Dokumentarfilm nicht spannend sein darf, ist nicht gerechtfertigt. ...
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Film om film
Barsam, Richard (1992) Nonfiction Film: a Critical History. 23. Corner, John (1996) The Art of Record: a Critical Introduction to documentary ...
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Der Todesdiskurs in Wim Wenders' Essay-Film "Nicks Movie ...
Vgl. dazu auch Richard M. Barsam, Nonfiction Film. A Critical History, (New York, 1973), S. 2. 2. Vgl. zu der Bestimmung der Begriffe "fiktiv" und ...
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Nonfiction Film; A Critical History.
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About the author (1992)

Richard Barsam (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of Nonfiction Film: A Critical History (rev., exp. ed. 1992), The Vision of Robert Flaherty: The Artist as Myth and Filmmaker (1988), In the Dark: A Primer for the Movies (1977), and Filmguide to "Triumph of the Will" (1975); editor of Nonfiction Film Theory and Criticism (1976); and contributing author to Paul Monaco's The Sixties: 1960-1969 (Vol. 8, History of the American Cinema, 2001) and Filming Robert Flaherty's "Louisiana Story": The Helen Van Dongen Diary (ed. Eva Orbanz, 1998). His articles and book reviews have appeared in Cinema Journal, Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Film Comment, Studies in Visual Communication, and Harper's. He has been a member of the Executive Council of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the Editorial Board of Cinema Journal, and the Board of Advisers of the History of American Cinema series, and he cofounded the journal Persistence of Vision.

Bibliographic information

QR code for Nonfiction Film
TitleNonfiction Film: A Critical History
Volume 706 of Midland Book
AuthorRichard Meran Barsam
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherIndiana University Press, 1992
ISBN0253207061, 9780253207067
Length482 pages
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