Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film

by Jeremy Hicks

Book Overview

Pioneer of political documentary and inventor of cinema verite, Dziga Vertov has exerted a decisive influence on directors from Eisenstein to Godard. Yet his reputation long rested upon a lone masterpiece, 'Man with a Movie Camera'. Recently, however Vertov has begun to be recognised as the creator of a body of innovative and distinct films and, as Jeremy Hicks argues, documentary as we know it today is unthinkable without the rediscovery of Vertov...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845113772
• ISBN13: 9781845113773
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.5"