Show Us Life: Toward a History and Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary
by Waugh, Thomas (Ed.)
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0810817063
- ISBN 13
- 9780810817067
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Metuchen NJ: Scarecrow Press], 1984. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, brick-red cloth with white lettering, no dust jacket issued. 508 pages. Text illustrations. Study covers period between Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera and documentary-movement associated with the Sandanista Revolution. This anthology of 25 articles is both historical and cross- cultural, covering the pioneering period of the twenties and thirties and the dynamic growth of committed documentary since the sixties; recent feminist initiatives in North America and Britain; committed documentary in the Third World over the last 25 years; the use of film within the American 'New Left;' and the particular problematic of radical film distribution. Contributors include such well-known activists and scholars as Joan Braderman, Julianne Burton, Guy Hennebelle, John Hess, Claire Johnstone, E. Ann Kaplan, Chuck Kleinhans, Julia Lesage, Steve Neale, Bill Nichols, Anand Patwardhan, and Paul Willemen. Filmmakers and collectives discussed include Dziga Vertov, Joris Ivens, Jean Renoir, Frontier Films, Newsreel, Chris Marker, Barbara Kopple, JoAnn Elam, Michelle Citron, Shinsuke Ogawa, Fernando Birri, Patricio Guzman, Santiago Alvarez, Fernando Solanas, Jean-Luc Godard, Anand Patwardhan, and the Nicaraguan Studio 'Incine.'Clean copy. Record # 379013
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- Title
- Show Us Life: Toward a History and Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary
- Author
- Waugh, Thomas (Ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0810817063
- ISBN 13
- 9780810817067
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press]
- Place of Publication
- Metuchen NJ
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Cinema, Documentary, , .
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