Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video

Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media

by Barry Keith Grant, Jeannette Sloniowski (Editor)

This collection features essays by 27 film scholars from a wide range of perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender and representation.

Genres: Film, Nonfiction

656 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1997

About the author

Barry Keith Grant is Professor in the Department of Communications, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University. He is the author or editor of many books, including 100 Science Fiction Films, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and four editions of Film Genre Reader.

Reviews

[Sarah Brienza · Rating 4 out of 5]

had to read for class. some part were more interesting than others.

[faerynde · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read Charlie Keil's American Documentary Finds Its Voice: Persuasion and Expression in The Plow
That Broke the Plains and The City in this book. Unfortunately this is the only part I could read. Hopefully I'll get around to reading the whole book one day.

Second Review

I read “It Was an Atrocious Film” from this book and it was an atrocious film (Blood of the Beasts by Franju) and I likes this article too. I hope to read more from this book.

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