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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 historical documentaries, and nature films.Tags
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Patricia Aufderheide is professor in the School of Communication, American University, and a senior editor of In These Times newspaper.
Series
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction
- First words
- Documentary film begins in the last years of the nineteenth century with the first films ever projected, and it has many faces.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Scholarship will continue to change our understanding of documentary, and it will reflect a creative engagement between the interests of academics and the practices of documentarians.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 070.1 — Computer science, information & general works News media, journalism & publishing Documentary media, educational media, news media; journalism; publishing Theory And Instruction
- LCC
- PN1995.9 .D6 .A94 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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- 174
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 3
