There's No Place Like Home Video

James M Moran

• Paperback | Engels | Visible Evidence | nr. 12
• Defines, examines, and elevates home video to its rightful place From its recording of family events to its influence on filmmaking, home video defies... Lees meer

First Person Jewish

Alisa S LeBow

• Paperback | Engels | Visible Evidence | nr. 22
• Documentaries have increasingly used the first person, with a number of prominent filmmakers finding critical and commercial success with this intimat... Lees meer

The Right to Play Oneself

Thomas Waugh

• Paperback | Engels | Visible Evidence
• The Right to Play Oneself collects for the first time Thomas Waugh's essays on the politics, history, and aesthetics of documentary film, written betw... Lees meer

Circuits of Culture

Jeff D Himpele

• Paperback | Engels | Visible Evidence | nr. 20
• Set against the background of Bolivia's prominent urban festival parades and the country's recent appearance on the front lines of antiglobalization m... Lees meer

Cinema's Alchemist

• Hardcover | Visible Evidence
• Multiple views of the famed Hungarian filmmaker and installation artist who turns home movies into history Lees meer

Creating the Witness

Leshu Torchin

• Paperback | Engels | Visible Evidence | nr. 26
• Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying learn this so... Lees meer

Trespassing Through Shadows

Andrea Liss

• Hardcover | Visible Evidence
• Photographs of the Holocaust act as history lessons for future generations so we will "never forget" and provide a means of mourning. This text initia... Lees meer

Feminism and Documentary

Diane Waldman

• Paperback | Engels | Visible Evidence | nr. 5
• The first book of essays to explore the intersection of these two vital disciplines. Documentary and feminist film studies have long been separate or ... Lees meer

Recording Reality, Desiring the Real

Elizabeth Cowie

• Paperback | Engels | Visible Evidence
• Documentary has once again emerged as one of the most vital cultural forms, whether seen in cinemas or inside the home, as digital, film, or video. In... Lees meer

Cinema's Alchemist

• Paperback | Engels | Visible Evidence
• Péter Forgács, based in Budapest, is best known for his award-winning films built on home movies from the 1930s to the 1960s that document ordinary li... Lees meer

Ferocious Reality

Eric Ames

• Paperback | Engels | Visible Evidence | nr. 27
• Over the course of his career Werner Herzog, known for such visionary masterpieces as Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser... Lees meer

Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions

Michelle Citron

• Paperback | Engels | Visible Evidence | nr. 4
• A filmmaker creates a series of touching narratives, in essay, memoir, fiction, and even flip book form, based on a shoe-box full of old home movies t... Lees meer

F Is for Phony

Alexandra Juhasz, Jesse Lerner

• Paperback | Engels | Visible Evidence | nr. 17
• Fake documentaries mimic documentary genre expectations, unraveling the documentary's authority and dismantling understandings of identity, history, a... Lees meer

Subject of Documentary

Michael Renov

• Paperback | Engels | Visible Evidence | nr. 16
• The documentary, a genre as old as cinema itself, has traditionally aspired to objectivity. Whether making ethnographic, propagandistic, or educationa... Lees meer

Japanese Documentary Film, Volume 15

Abe Mark Nornes

• Paperback | Engels | Visible Evidence | nr. 15
• Among Asian countries--where until recently documentary filmmaking was largely the domain of central governments--Japan was exceptional for the vigor ... Lees meer

F Is For Phony

Alexandra Juhasz, Jesse Lerner

• Hardcover | Visible Evidence
• Explores issues raised by "fake docs" such as the fiction/documentary divide, the ethics of reality-based manipulation, and whether documentariness de... Lees meer

Trespassing Through Shadows

Andrea Liss

• Paperback | Engels | Visible Evidence | nr. 3
• Photographs of the Holocaust bear a double burden: to act as history lessons for future generations so we will "never forget" and to provide a means o... Lees meer