By Ian Aitken

ISBN-10: 0415596424

ISBN-13: 9780415596428

ISBN-10: 1138107840

ISBN-13: 9781138107847

The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a completely foreign reference paintings at the background of the documentary movie from the Lumière brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1885) to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004).


Previously released in 3 volumes, entries were edited and up to date for the hot, concise variation and 3 new entries were further on: India, China and Africa.


The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film:



  • Discusses person motion pictures and filmmakers together with little-known filmmakers from international locations akin to India, Bosnia, China and others

  • Examines the documentary filmmaking traditions inside of countries and areas, or inside of old classes in locations comparable to Iran, Brazil, Portugal, and Japan

  • Explores topics, matters, and representations in documentary movie together with human rights, modernism, homosexuality, and international struggle I, in addition to varieties of documentary movie corresponding to newsreels and academic films

  • Elaborates on creation businesses, corporations, gala's, and associations corresponding to the yankee movie Institute, Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board, sizzling medical doctors (Toronto), and the area Union of Documentary

  • Describes types, innovations, and technical concerns akin to animation, machine imaging, modifying innovations, IMAX, song, and spoken commentary

Bringing jointly all points of documentary movie, this available concise version offers a useful source for either students and scholars. With movie stills from key movies, this source presents the decisive access aspect into the background of an artwork form.

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