A New History of Documentary Film

  • A New History of Documentary Film
    By Jack C. Ellis, Betsy A. McLane

    A number of films were made about the Spanish civil war ( 1936 to 1938 ) , in which General Francisco Franco's Moorish legions , backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy , were pitted against the Republican Loyalists aided by Communist ...

  • A New History of Documentary Film: Second Edition
    By Betsy A. McLane

    A number of films were made about the Spanish Civil War (1936-8), in which General Francisco Franco's legions, backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, were pitted against the Republican Loyalists aided formally by Russia and ...

  • A New History of Documentary Film: Second Edition
    By Betsy A. McLane

    Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum In this unprecedented feature-length film ordinary people carried out and sometimes re-enacted things they did in everyday life – working, eating, sleeping, travelling, playing with their ...

  • A New History of Documentary Film: Second Edition
    By Betsy A. McLane

    ... Documentary Dilemmas: Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies. Carbondale: University of Southern Illinois Press, 1992. Atkins, Thomas R., ed., Frederick Wiseman. New York: Monarch Press, 1976. Beattie, Eleanor, A Handbook of Canadian ...

  • A New History of Documentary Film
    By Betsy A. McLane

    ... documentary requires a curious open mind and the willingness to forgo “presentism,” the tendency to interpret past events in terms of modern values and concepts. That “ism” may be as destructive any of those isms mentioned earlier. as ...

  • A New History of Documentary Film
    By Betsy A. McLane

    New to this edition: - An additional chapter that brings the story of English language documentary to the present day - Increased coverage of women and people of color in documentary production - Streaming - Animated documentaries - List of ...