Nonfiction Film

A Critical History

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by Richard Barsam

Type: Studies
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Keywords: documentary
Publishing date: 1992
Publisher: Indiana University Press; revised and expanded
Language: English

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Paperback • 332 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-253-20706-1
978-0-253-20706-7

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Book Presentation:
"Richard Barsam has given us as comprehensive a study of the origins and development of the nonfiction mode in motion pictures as we are ever likely to have in one volume. He draws on all the major written sources and many which are little known, and he shares with us many eloquent descriptions of the films themselves, giving us a valuable textbook." —Richard Dyer MacCann

" . . . superb work . . . " —Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television

About the Author:
RICHARD M. BARSAM is Provost of the Pratt Institute. He is author of The Vision of Robert Flaherty: The Artist as Myth and Filmmaker, Nonfiction Film Theory and Criticism, Filmguide to "Triumph of the Will," and In the Dark: A Primer for the Movies.

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