Author: Aufderheide, Patricia

Price: $12.08

Category:Arts & Photography
Publication Date:2007-11-28T00:00:01Z
Pages:176
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0195182707
ISBN:13:9780195182705
Beginning with an overview of the central issues of documentary filmmaking—its definitions and purposes, its forms and founders—Aufderheide focuses on several of its key subgenres, including public affairs films, government propaganda (particularly the works produced during World War II), historical documentaries, and nature films. Her thematic approach allows readers to enter the subject matter through the kinds of films that first attracted them to documentaries, and it permits her to make connections between eras, as well as revealing the ongoing nature of documentary's core controversies involving objectivity, advocacy, and bias.