Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction

by Patricia Aufderheide

Book Overview

Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes readers along the diverse paths of documentary history and charts the lively,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195182707
• ISBN13: 9780195182705
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.8"