Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video

Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media

by Jim Leach (Editor), Bill Nichols (Foreword), Jeannette Sloniowski (Editor)

An examination of the developments in the history of documentary fimmmaking.

Genres: Film, Nonfiction

488 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1997

About the author

Jim Leach is professor emeritus in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. He is the author of books on filmmakers Alain Tanner and Claude Jutra, as well as the author of British Film and Film in Canada. He has also published a monograph on Doctor Who (Wayne State University Press, 2009), co-edited a volume on Canadian documentary films, and developed a Canadian edition of an introductory film studies textbook.

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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