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 Nonfiction Film