ERIC Number: ED078458
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1973
Pages: 332
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Nonfiction Film; A Critical History.
Barsam, Richard Meran
In this survey history of the documentary or nonfiction cinema, major emphasis is placed upon John Grierson and the British documentary movement as exemplary of the factual films with goals of social improvement and on Robert Flaherty, whose movement stressed poetic or humanistic nonfiction film treatment. Newsreels and current trends in documentary films are also reviewed. (CH)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Communications, Communication (Thought Transfer), Documentaries, Film Production, Film Study, Films, History, Mass Media, Nonverbal Communication, Persuasive Discourse, Realism, Social Action, Visual Literacy
E. P. Dutton, 201 Park Avenue South, New York, N. Y. 10003 ($9.95 cloth, $4.95 paper)
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