Documenting Cityscapes

Iván Villarmea Álvarez

• Paperback | Engels | Nonfictions
• While film studies has traditionally treated the presence of the city in film as an urban text operating inside of a cinematic one, this approach has ... Lees meer

Killer Images

• Paperback | Engels | Nonfictions
• Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of... Lees meer

Voyages of Discovery

Barry Keith Grant

• Paperback | Engels | Nonfictions
• Frederick Wiseman is America's foremost chronicler of public institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and local governments; hospitals; as... Lees meer

Mediating Mobility

Steffen Köhn

• Paperback | Engels | Nonfictions
• Images have become an integral part of the political regulation of migration: they help produce categories of legality versus illegality, foster stere... Lees meer

I-Docs

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonfictions
• The history of documentary has been one of adaptation and change, as documentarists have harnessed the affordances of emerging technology. In the last... Lees meer

Projecting Race

Stephen Charbonneau

• Paperback | Engels | Nonfictions
• Projecting Race presents a history of educational documentary filmmaking in the postwar era in light of race relations and the fight for civil rights.... Lees meer

The Personal Camera

Laura Rascaroli

• Paperback | Engels | Nonfictions
• The Personal Camera is an exploration of an elusive but more and more compelling field: essayistic cinema. The essay film, together with its cognate f... Lees meer

Building Bridges

Joram Ten Brink, Michael Renov

• Paperback | Engels | Nonfictions
• Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch is the first title to fully explore the work and legacy of French documentary-maker Jean Rouch. A figure as... Lees meer

Filming History from Below

Efrén Cuevas

• Paperback | Engels | Nonfictions
• Traditional historical documentaries strive to project a sense of objectivity, producing a top-down view of history that focuses on public events and ... Lees meer

The Essay Film

• Paperback | Engels | Nonfictions
• With its increasing presence in a continuously evolving media environment, the essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction... Lees meer

Playing to the Camera

Thomas Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonfictions
• Playing to the Camera is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary. Its scope ranges from rock concert films to exper... Lees meer

The Essay Film

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonfictions
• With its increasing presence in a continuously evolving media environment, the essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction... Lees meer

Filming History from Below

Efrén Cuevas

• Hardcover | Engels | Nonfictions
• Traditional historical documentaries strive to project a sense of objectivity, producing a top-down view of history that focuses on public events and ... Lees meer

Documents of Utopia

Paolo Magagnoli

• Paperback | Engels | Nonfictions
• This timely volume discusses the experimental documentary projects of some of the most significant artists working in the world today: Hito Steyerl, J... Lees meer

Perpetrator Cinema

Raya Morag

• Paperback | Engels | Nonfictions
• Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and ea... Lees meer

Playing to the Camera

Thomas Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Nonfictions
• Playing to the Camera is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary. Its scope ranges from rock concert films to exper... Lees meer

I-Docs

• Paperback | Engels | Nonfictions
• The history of documentary has been one of adaptation and change, as docu-mentarists have harnessed the affordances of emerging technology. In the las... Lees meer

The Cinema of Me

• Paperback | Engels | Nonfictions
• When a filmmaker makes a film with herself as a subject, she is already divided as both the subject matter of the film and the subject making the film... Lees meer