American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age: Depictions of War in Burns, Moore, and Morris

by Lucia Ricciardelli

Book Overview

American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age examines the recent challenges to the conventions of realist documentary through the lens of war documentary films by Ken Burns, Michael Moore, and Errol Morris. During the twentieth century, the invention of new technologies of audiovisual representation such as cinema, television, video, and digital media have transformed the modes of historical narration and with it forced historians to assess...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138548375
• ISBN13: 9781138548374
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"