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' filmmakers continued to produce the traditional...

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: New York Notes," Close-Up 7, no. 4 (October 1930), p....

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 classical Hollywood cinema, an attendant-in-waiting to...

Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to...

William Rothman. Documentary Film Classics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 240 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Nonfiction film has been getting a lot of attention lately. Scholars and students are discovering how rich and interesting the range of material is, old and...

Robert Sokolowsky left Needham in 1997 to find himself. He lived in Israel and traveled to Australia and Southeast Asia. But it wasn't until he traveled overland from China to Egypt in 2000 that he found the remarkable desert people of Karakalpakstan, ultimately revealing...

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 its world premiere at Sundance on January 22. The documentary is "composed of dramatic portraits...

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 created with actors for a documentary film.Producer Howaida Taha Matwali, an Egyptian, was banned earlier this past week...