The Nonfiction Film
RICHARD M. BARSAMI
Historical, Theoretical, and Technological Origins
The American nonfiction film of the 1960s has both traditional and experimental roots.1 Although 1960s' filmma...
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Documenting the 1940s
THOMAS DOHERTY
In 1940, the documentary presentation of real life, whether in newsreel, short subject, or feature-length form, was a subordinate entry in the staple program of cl...
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The Poetics and Politics of Nonfiction: Documentary Film
Charles Wolfe
The document is a basis, and the document transfigured is the ultimate
work of art in the cinema.
Harry Alan Potamkin, "Movie: ...
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The Black List: Volume One, a collaboration between former New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell and director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, has been sold to HBO Documentary Films, and will have i...
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The Singapore government said Tuesday it will ban a new
documentary film on one of the city-state's longest serving political
prisoners.
The 49-minute documentary by local filmmaker Martyn...
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Egyptian authorities on Saturday detained an Al-Jazeera journalist for fabricating scenes of torture staged inside mock Egyptian police stations, but the pan-Arab network said the footage was creat...
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New York (dpa) - The documentary film We Are Together won the
audience award at the annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York on
Sunday, the closing day of the festival.
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A jury convicted four men Thursday of kidnapping a college student from her job nearly 30 years ago, then raping and killing her, in a case that was revived after a documentary film about it.Janet ...
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The festival screened 70 films this year, including VH1’s Last Days of Left Eye, a full-length vivid documentary recounting the final month in the life of Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes of...
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