Documentary Film Classics (Cambridge Studies in Film)
Cambridge University Press, 1/28/1997
EAN 9780521456814, ISBN10: 0521456819
Paperback, 240 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
Documentary Film Classics offers close readings on a number of major films, such as Nanook of the North, Land Without Bread, Night and Fog, Chronicle of a Summer and Don't Look Back. Spanning the history of the documentary film tradition, William Rothman analyses the philosophical and historical issues and themes implicit in these works. Designed to guide film students through the 'texts' of a wide range of documentaries, his readings also focus on the achievements of these works as films per se.
1. Nanook of the North
2. Land Without Bread
3. Night and Fog
4. Chronicle of a Summer
Jean Rouch, Cinema-verite and 'shared anthropology'
5. Cinema-verite in America (I)
A Happy Mother's Day
6. Cinema-verite in America (II)
rebel with a cause
Don't Look Back.