Introduction to Documentary Second Edition
By Bill Nichols
By Bill Nichols
This new edition of Bill Nichols’s bestselling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. Designed for students in any field that makes use of visual evidence and persuasive strategies, Introduction to Documentary identifies the distinguishing qualities of documentary and teaches the viewer how to read documentary film. Each chapter takes up a discrete question, from "How did documentary filmmaking get started?" to "Why are ethical issues central to documentary filmmaking?" Carefully revised to take account of new work and trends, this volume includes information on more than 100 documentaries released since the first edition, an expanded treatment of the six documentary modes, new still images, and a greatly expanded list of distributors.
Bill Nichols is Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University and author of Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary (IUP, 1992) and Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture (IUP, 1995).
Distribution: World
Publication date: 11/16/2010
Format: paper 368 pages, 85 b&w illus., 6 x 9 x 1
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22260-2
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Widescreen Worldwide
Edited by John Belton, Sheldon Hall, and Steven Neale
Edited by John Belton, Sheldon Hall, and Steven Neale
Examining widescreen cinema as a worldwide aesthetic and industrial phenomenon, the essays in this volume situate the individual expressions of this new technology within the larger cultural and industrial practices that inform them. What Hollywood sought to market globally as CinemaScope, SuperScope, Techniscope, Technirama, and Panavision took indigenous form in a host of compatible anamorphic formats developed around the world. The book documents how the aesthetics of the first wave of American widescreen films underwent revision in Europe and Asia as filmmakers brought their own idiolect to the language of widescreen mise-en-scène, editing, and sound practices. The work of Otto Preminger, Anthony Mann, Samuel Fuller, Sam Peckinpah, Seijun Suzuki, Kihachi Okamoto, and Tai Kato, among others, is addressed.
John Belton is Professor of English and Film at Rutgers University and author of Widescreen Cinema.
Sheldon Hall is Senior Lecturer in Stage and Screen at Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom.
Steven Neale is Professor of Film Studies at Exeter University.
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232 pp., 162 b&w illus.
cloth 978-0-86196-694-3 $34.95
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Japanese Animation: Time Out of Mind
By Chris Robinson
By Chris Robinson
While visiting Japan, animation writer Chris Robinson gets lost. As he drifts through Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Kyoto he happens upon a number of mysterious figures including Bob Dylan, Haruki Murakami, Sumo wrestlers, Big Bird and, by good chance, many famous Japanese animators—both living and dead. Each of these characters takes Robinson into a deep, dark, mysterious world of Japanese animation that does not include Godzilla, Akira, Anime, Manga, or Hasao Miyazaki. This inventive and unusual study rewrites the history of Japanese animation looking at the work of Atsushi Wada, Taku Furukawa, Renzo and Sayoko Kinoshita, Maya Yonesho, and many more.
Chris Robinson is a Canadian writer, journalist, and biographer. He is author of Estonian Animation, Unsung Heroes of Animation, The Animation Pimp, Canadian Animation, and Ballad of a Thin Man.
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160 pp., 70 color illus., 21 b&w illus.
paper 978-0-86196-692-9 $29.95
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Polish Cinema Now!
Edited by Mateusz Werner
Polish cinema has exercised an independent voice for more than 20 years, challenging political censorship and breaking the old production monopoly of the previous communist government. During this time, Polish movie makers have enjoyed the same freedoms and possibilities as their French or German counterparts, producing 500 feature films and several thousand documentaries. These works are paradoxically less well known internationally than the Polish films made behind the iron curtain when cultural exchange with the western world was controlled exclusively by communist authorities. Polish Cinema Now! facilitates the discovery of this relatively unknown group of works with 11 engaging essays by leading experts from both Poland and abroad. Richly illustrated, this book contains a two-DVD set of short films.
Mateusz Werner lectures at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw. He is editor of the journal Kronos; author of Wobec nihilizmu: Gombrowicz, Witkacy; and co-creator and host of the Polish public television programs The Picture Show and Half-Seriously.
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240 pp., 1 color illus., 11 b&w illus.
paper 978-0-86196-691-2 $39.95
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