Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film

by Charles Warren

Book Overview

Critics and writers consider nonfiction film both as document and as creative work with strong artistic, political, and moral implications.

In essays by eleven of America's foremost writers, critics, and filmmakers, Beyond Document explores the full spectrum of nonfiction film and its creative possibilities. In addition to Charles Warren's broad introductory history of the genre, the book takes a close look at ethnographic films,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819562904
• ISBN13: 9780819562906
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher