100 documentary films / Barry Keith Grant & Jim Hillier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grant, Barry Keith, 1947- author.

Hillier, Jim, author.

Series:

BFI screen guides.

Screen Guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British Film Institute.

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Film & Media.

Local Subjects:

British Film Institute.

Film & Media.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

One hundred documentary films

Hundred documentary films

Place of Publication:

London : British Film Institute : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2009.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Documentary films constitute a major part of film history. Cinema's origins lie, arguably, more in non-fiction than fiction, and documentary represents the other - often submerged and barely visible - 'half' of cinema history. Historically, documentary cinema has always been an important point of reference for fiction cinema, and the two have often overlapped. Over the last two decades, documentary cinema has enjoyed a revival in critical and commercial success. 100 Documentary Films is the first book to offer concise and authoritative individual critical commentaries on some of the key documentary films - from the Lumière brothers and the beginnings of cinema through to recent films such as Bowling for Columbine and When the Levees Broke - and is global in perspective. Many different types of documentary are discussed, as well as films by major documentary directors, including Robert Flaherty, Humphrey Jennings, Jean Rouch, Dziga Vertov, Errol Morris, Nick Broomfield and Michael Moore. Each entry provides concise critical analysis, while frequent cross reference to other films featured helps to place films in their historical and aesthetic contexts. Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Film Studies and Popular Culture at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology (2007), Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman (1992) and co-author, with Steve Blandford and Jim Hillier, of The Film Studies Dictionary (2001). Jim Hillier is Visiting Lecturer in Film at the University of Reading. He is the author of The New Hollywood (1993), the co-author of The Film Studies Dictionary (2001) and, with Alan Lovell, of Studies in Documentary (1972). His edited books include American Independent Cinema (2001) and two volumes of the English translation of the selected Cahiers du cinema (1985, 1986).

Contents:

Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam, Nick Broomfield, 1995

Hoop Dreams, Steve James, 1994

The Hour of the Furnaces/La hora de los hornos, Octavio Getino, Fernando Ezequiel Solanas, 1968

Housing Problems, Edgar Anstey, Arthur Elton, 1935

Las Hurdes/Land without Bread, Luis Buñuel, 1933

I for India, Sandhya Suri, 2005

In the Year of the Pig, Emile de Antonio, 1968

Jazz, Ken Burns, 2001

Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl, 1950

Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance, Godfrey Reggio, 1982

Lessons in Darkness/Lektionen in Finsternis, Werner Herzog, 1992

Let There Be Light, John Huston, 1946

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, Connie Field, 1980

Lonely Boy, Wolf Koenig, Roman Kroitor, 1962

Lost Lost Lost, Jonas Mekas, 1976

Lumière Programme, Louis and Auguste Lumière, 1895

Les Maîtres fous, Jean Rouch, 1955

Manhatta, Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand, 1921

Man of Aran, Robert Flaherty, 1934

Man with a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov, 1929

March of the Penguins/La Marche de l'empereur, Luc Jacquet, 2005

A Married Couple, Allan King, 1969

Minamata, Tsuchimoto Noriaki, 1971

My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin, 2007

Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty, 1922

Native Land, Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand, 1942

Necrology, Standish Lawder, 1971

New Earth/Nieuwe gronden, Joris Ivens, 1934

News from Home, Chantal Akerman, 1976

North Sea, Harry Watt, 1938

Nuit et brouillard/Night and Fog, Alain Resnais, 1955

Not a Love Story: A Film about Pornography, Bonnie Sherr Klein, 1981

One Man's War/La Guerre d'un seul homme, Edgardo Cozarinsky, 1982

Paris Is Burning, Jennie Livingston, 1990

People on Sunday/Menschen am Sonntag, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, 1930

The Plow that Broke the Plains, Pare Lorentz, 1936

Portrait of Jason, Shirley Clarke, 1967

Primary, Robert Drew, 1960.

Primate, Frederick Wiseman, 1974

Les Racquetteurs/The Snowshoers, Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx, 1958

Roger and Me, Michael Moore, 1989

Salesman, Albert and David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1968

Le Sang des bêtes, Georges Franju, 1949

Sans soleil/Sunless, Chris Marker, 1983

79 Primaveras/79 Springs, Santiago Alvarez, 1969

Shipyard, Paul Rotha, 1935

Shoah, Claude Lanzmann, 1985

El sol del membrillo/The Quince Tree Sun/The Dream of Light, Victor Erice, 1992

The Spanish Earth, Joris Ivens, 1937

Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1989

Talking Heads, Krzysztof Kies´lowski, 1980

The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris, 1988

This Is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner, 1984

Time Indefinite, Ross McElwee, 1993

Titicut Follies, Frederick Wiseman, 1967

Tongues Untied, Marlon Riggs, 1990

Triumph of the Will/Triumph des Willens, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935

Truth or Dare, Alek Keshishian, 1991

Turksib, Victor A. Turin, 1929

Very Nice, Very Nice, Arthur Lipsett, 1961

Waiting for Fidel, Michael Rubbo, 1974

The War Game, Peter Watkins, 1965

We Are the Lambeth Boys, Karel Reisz, 1958

When the Levees Broke, Spike Lee, 2006

Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War, Frank Capra, 1943

Woodstock, Michael Wadleigh, 1970

Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno, 2006

References

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Index.

Notes:

Bibliography: p. [250]-252

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781838710606

1838710604

9781838714017

1838714014

9781844575510

1844575519

OCLC:

965739718

Publisher Number:

205395