Documentary films Books
Wallflower Press Playing to the Camera – Musicians and Musical
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£16.19
Wallflower Press Playing to the Camera – Musicians and Musical
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£44.00
Prototype Publishing Ltd. Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter
Book Synopsis‘The foreigner is within me, hence we’re all foreigners. If we’re all foreigners, there are no foreigners.’ – Julia KristevaStrangers Within is an anthology exploring the idea of documentary as encounter through essays, stories, interviews and other creative responses by filmmakers, artists, and writers. The texts engage with the risks of encounter, unsettling assumptions about the distinctions between host and guest; stranger and friend; self and other; documentarian and protagonist. Opening up a series of questions about the mystery of another person, whose difference and unknowability is already a part of one’s self, the anthology offers a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the convergences between encounter, hospitality and autobiography.With contributions by Khalik Allah, Ruth Beckermann, Jon Bang Carlsen, Adam Christensen, Annie Ernaux, Gareth Evans, Jane Fawcett, Xiaolu Guo, Umama Hamido, Therese Henningsen, Marc Isaacs, Mary Jiménez Freeman-Morris, Juliette Joffé, Andrew and Eden Kötting, David MacDougall, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Toni Morrison, Bruno de Wachter and Andrea Luka Zimmerman.
£13.50
Unicorn Publishing Group In the Line of Fire: Memories of a Documentary
Book SynopsisIn the Line of Fire is the personal memoir of Antony Thomas, a documentary filmmaker whose work has won international acclaim and many prestigious awards. From the full range of documentaries made over a fifty-two-year career, the author focuses on subjects that affected him deeply and remain relevant to this day; the pernicious effects of racism, the ‘seamless border’ between intelligence and crime, the last colonial wars in Africa, the conflicts in the Middle East, the rise of Islamic extremism, the politicisation of Evangelical Christians in the United States and the origins of fake news – to mention just a few. Thomas brings these disparate experiences together by taking a very personal approach and using every opportunity to take the reader ‘behind the camera’ where he shares the difficulties, the moral problems and the dangers that he and his colleagues sometimes faced, including the moment when the entire team was condemned to death in a military camp in Zambia. Eleven years later, Thomas was back in the line of fire, coping with vicious attacks from MPs and sectors of the press, following the broadcast of his controversial docudrama Death of a Princess.Trade Review“In the Line of Fire is one of the finest books written in the last years about documentary practice and its goals. It is a must-read for all those interested in nonfiction film.” Cineaste
£20.00
BenBella Books Avery: The Case Against Steven Avery and What
Book SynopsisIt's time to set the record straight about Steven Avery.The Netflix series Making a Murderer was a runaway hit, with over 19 million US viewers in the first 35 days. The series left many with the opinion that Steven Avery, a man falsely imprisoned for almost 20 years on a previous, unrelated assault charge, had been framed by a corrupt police force and district attorney's office for the murder of a young photographer. Viewers were outraged, and hundreds of thousands demanded a pardon for Avery. The chief villain of the series? Ken Kratz, the special prosecutor who headed the investigation and trial. Kratz's later misdeedsprescription drug abuse and sexual harassmentonly cemented belief in his corruption.This book tells you what Making a Murderer didn't.While indignation at the injustice of his first imprisonment makes it tempting to believe in his innocence, Avery: The Case Against Steven Avery and What Making a Murderer Gets Wrong and the evidence shared insideexamined thoroughly and dispassionatelyprove that, in this case, the criminal justice system worked just as it should.With Avery, Ken Kratz puts doubts about Steven Avery's guilt to rest. In this exclu- sive insider's look into the controversial case, Kratz lets the evidence tell the story, sharing details and insights unknown to the public. He reveals the facts Making a Murderer conveniently left out and then candidly addresses the aftermathopenly discussing, for the first time, his own struggle with addiction that led him to lose everything.Avery systematically erases the uncertainties introduced by the Netflix series, confirming, once and for all, that Steven Avery is guilty of the murder of Teresa Halbach.Table of ContentsForewordChapter One True Crime TodayChapter Two The DisappearanceChapter Three The VictimChapter Four The PerpetratorChapter Five The BloodChapter Six The KeyChapter Seven The BonesChapter Eight The BulletChapter Nine The AccompliceChapter Ten The DecisionChapter Eleven The VillainsChapter Twelve The Prize”Chapter Thirteen The Vast, Fantastical Police ConspiracyChapter Fourteen The AftermathAcknowledgments
£11.39
Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Geo-Doc: Geomedia, Documentary Film, and Social Change
Book SynopsisThis book introduces a new form of documentary film: the Geo-Doc, designed to maximize the influential power of the documentary film as an agent of social change. By combining the proven methods and approaches as evidenced through historical, theoretical, digital, and ecocritical investigations with the unique affordances of Geographic Information System technology, a dynamic new documentary form emerges, one tested in the field with the United Nations. This book begins with an overview of the history of the documentary film with attention given to how it evolved as an instrument of social change. It examines theories surrounding mobilizing the documentary film as a communication tool between filmmakers and policymakers. Ecocinema and its semiotic storytelling techniques are also explored for their unique approaches in audience engagement. The proven methods identified throughout the book are combined with the spatial and temporal affordances provided by GIS technology to create the Geo-Doc, a new tool for the activist documentarian.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Farming the Tools of Persuasion.-3. Methods and Approaches to Documentary Influence.- 4. Ecocinema and Semiotic Storytelling.- 5. The Documentary’s Digital Turn.- 6. Visible Volume: The Multilinear and Database Documentary.- 7. The Geo-Doc: A Locative Approach to Remediating the Genre.- 8. Conclusion.
£53.25
Palgrave Macmillan Documentary Film and Radical Psychiatry
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£33.24
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften El cine documental hispánico como contrapoder
Book SynopsisEl presente volumen está dedicado al estudio del cine documental como medio de fomentar, vehicular e incluso ejercer cierto contrapoder en determinados contextos sociopolíticos de varios países hispánicos. Las películas aquí analizadas suponen un gran paso adelante en la manera de usar el cine documental para mostrar ciertas reivindicaciones que tradicionalmente son marginadas o relegadas a un segundo plano por los grandes medios de comunicación a causa del impacto político o social que pueden provocar. Algunos de estos documentales están en la vanguardia de lo que audiovisualmente se está haciendo para llegar con más fuerza a un mayor público. Otros se han afianzado como modelos de gran influencia en la actualidad en cuanto a las posibilidades expresivas del cine documental y de sus modos y estilos observacionales, reflexivos, participativos y performativos, con vistas a sensibilizar e incluso a movilizar a un público muy diverso que cada vez se interesa más por este género.
£31.35
Springer International Publishing AG Toward a Philosophy of the Documentarian: A
Book SynopsisThe theme of this book is the documentarian—what the documentarian is and how we can understand it as a concept. Working from the premise that the documentarian is a special—extended—sign, the book develops a model of a quadruple sign structure for-and-of the documentarian, growing out of enduring traditions in philosophy, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and documentary theory. Dan Geva investigates the intellectual premise that allows the documentarian to show itself as an extremely sophisticated, creative, and purposeful being-in-the-world—one that is both embedded in its own history and able to manifest itself throughout its entire documentary life project, as a stand-alone conceptual phase in the history of ideas. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Documentarian-Abstractness (DA) 3. Documentarian-Sensoriality (DS) 4. 4. Documentarian Práxis (DP) 5. 5. Documentarian-Invisibility (DI)
£98.99
Peter Lang AG Peter Kosminsky Et La Télévision Britannique:
Book SynopsisRéalisateur britannique de fictions politiques, Peter Kosminsky a fait le choix d'investir une télévision aux potentialités politiques évidentes. Ses scénarios filmiques offrent un traitement holistique à une actualité récente, souvent abordée de manière parcellaire, voire sensationnelle.L'examen des œuvres de Peter Kosminsky permet de mieux comprendre le caractère atypique de son parcours : comment, en optant pour la fiction il est parvenu à porter à l'attention de tous, un travail de questionnement des politiques gouvernementales au Royaume-Uni depuis les années 1990.L'ambition de cet ouvrage, qui revient sur l'ensemble des films de Peter Kosminsky, est aussi de montrer comment la télévision britannique s'est emparée de la fiction à valeur documentaire pour retraiter l'actualité.
£38.30
Peter Lang AG La poscensura en el cine documental de la
Book SynopsisEn España, el cine documental vivió uno de sus momentos más fructíferos durante la transición democrática (1977-1982), cuando el país se encontraba en pleno proceso de recuperación de las libertades tras el régimen de Franco. Sin embargo, distintas causas administrativas, industriales y creativas concluyeron prácticamente con la desaparición del documental de las pantallas españolas a principios de los 80. Los residuos del régimen y el triunfo del consenso político contribuyeron a la obstaculización de la producción y distribución de algunos documentales rupturistas e incómodos para el poder. Este libro desentraña los mecanismos de poscensura sufridos por El proceso de Burgos, Después de... y Rocío, esta última, una película cuya exhibición íntegra continúa prohibida en el estado español.
£50.31
V&R Unipress Cadrage.: Rassismus-kritische Analysen zu rechter
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£83.35
Silvana Ewa-Mari Johansson: Image 2000-2008
Book SynopsisEwa-Mari Johansson's personal research should be interpreted as a general work-in-progress. It is endowed with a sort of internal coherence that appears as stages of a single dialectic path without a real beginning or a definite end. Ewa-Mari Johansson's work is endowed with a sort of internal coherence that appears as stages of a single dialectic path without a real beginning or a definite end. But it has developed in a circular manner - often returning to investigate the same field, but each time with a different and heightened critical and aesthetic awareness. Text in English and Italian.
£21.20
Amsterdam University Press Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and video-maker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around the world to conduct workshops inspired by cinema history’s first film, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, shot in 1895 by the Lumière brothers in France. While the workshop videos are in colour and the camera was not required to remain static, Ehmann and Farocki’s students were tasked with honouring the original Lumière film’s basic parameters of theme and style. The fascinating result is a collection of more than 550 short videos that have appeared in international exhibitions and on an open-access website, offering the widest possible audience the opportunity to ponder contemporary labour in multiple contexts around the world.Trade Review"the most significant contribution of Labour in a Single Shot as both media project and critical anthology is to make visible and sometimes more legible the conditions of labor in a twenty-first century that has overturned, undermined, or—to use that most odious of management terms—“disrupted” how we work under current conditions of capitalism." Michael Zryd, Europe Now, July 2023Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Foreword: Eine Einstellung zur Arbeit/Labour in a Single Shot (Detlef Gericke) 2. Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives – Editors’ Introduction (Roy Grundmann, Peter J. Schwartz, and Gregory H. Williams) 3. Labour in a Single Shot – Antje Ehmann’s Workshop and Exhibition Journals , 2011–2014 (Antje Ehmann) History 4. Attitudes Towards Work : On the Historical Metamorphoses of Psychotechnology (Peter J. Schwartz) 5. One Shot, Two Mediums, Three Centuries (Roy Grundmann) 6. The Body and the Senses: Harun Farocki on Work and Play (Thomas Elsaesser) Poetics 7. Ten Propositions (Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann) 8. Videopoetics of Labour in a Single Shot (José Gatti) 9. Knowing When to Be Wary of Images (David Barker) Embodiment 10. Punching In/Punching Out: Labour, Care, and Leisure at Work and at Play (Jeannie Simms) 11. Labour’s Mediating Objects: Tools, Tactility, and Embodiment (Gregory H. Williams) Networks 12. Database Labour: Supply Chains, Logistics, and Flow (Thomas Stubblefield) 13. Artwork and Artefact: The Networked Conditions of Labour in a Single Shot (Gloria Sutton) 14. Reading the Web Catalogue: Labour in a Single Shot as Online Environment (Vinicius Navarro) Bibliography Index of Labour in a Single Shot workshop videos General index
£130.15
Amsterdam University Press Japanese Filmmakers in the Wake of Fukushima:
Book SynopsisIn the ongoing aftermath of the nuclear accident in 2011, filmmakers have continued to issue warnings about the state of Japanese society and politics, which remain mired in refusal to change. Nearly a decade in the making, Japanese Filmmakers in the Wake of Fukushima is based on in-person interviews with countless filmmakers, as well as continuous dialogue with them and their work. Author Wada-Marciano has expanded these dialogues to include students, audiences at screenings, critics, and researchers, and her observations are based on down-to-earth-exchange of ideas engaged in over a long period of time. Filmmakers and artists are in the vanguard of those who grapple with what should be done regarding the struggle against fear of the invisible blight—radiation exposure. Rather than blindly following the mass media and public opinion, they have chosen to think and act independently. While repeatedly viewing and reviewing the film works from the post-Fukushima period, Wada-Marciano felt the unwavering message that emanates from them: “There must be no more nuclear weapons.” “There must be no more nuclear power generation.” The book is dedicated to convincing readers of the clarity of their message.Trade Review"Wada-Marciano’s passion makes for compelling reading— detailing Japan’s antinuclear cinema, she joins its refusal of the one-party democratic state’s culture of enforced forgetting and simultaneously challenges privileging the arty and obscure in Japanese Film Studies." . Professor Chris Berry, Dept. of Film Studies, King’s College London "Wada-Marciano’s insightful on-the-ground interviews and astute analysis of cinematic content and techniques —in front of and behind the camera— introduce hard-to-find postdisaster films and argue persuasively for the urgency of the anti-nuclear as a theme in Japanese documentary film." . Rachel DiNitto, Dept. of East Asian Languages & Literatures, University of OregonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures: Captions for the Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: No Nukes before Fukushima: Postwar Atomic Cinema and the History of the “Safety Myth” Chapter 2: Striding over 3.11: The Political Power of Ashes to Honey Chapter 3: Resistance against the Nuclear Village Chapter 4: The Power of Interviews Chapter 5: Learning about Fukushima from the Margins Chapter 6: The Power of Art after 3.11 Appendix: Interview from “Film Workshop with Director Hamaguchi Ryusuke” Bibliography
£107.35
Slovenska kinoteka Lubitsch Can′t Wait – A Collection of Ten
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£21.25
Hong Kong University Press Remade in Hollywood The Global Chinese Presence
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£47.51
Hong Kong University Press Art Politics and Commerce in Chinese Cinema
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£19.00
Hong Kong University Press Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema
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£26.25
Hong Kong University Press Mabel Cheung YuenTings An Autumns Tale
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£25.23
Hong Kong University Press Johnnie To KeiFungs PTU
£19.00
Hong Kong University Press Yuen Woo Pings Wing Chun
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£19.00
Hong Kong University Press John Woos Bullet in the Head
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£19.00
Hong Kong University Press Horror to the Extreme Changing Boundaries in
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£28.84
Hong Kong University Press Horror to the Extreme Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema
£19.00
Hong Kong University Press Fruit Chans Made in Hong Kong
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£19.00
Hong Kong University Press Cinema at the Citys Edge Film and Urban Networks
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£28.41
National University of Singapore Press Of Haunted Spaces: Cinema, Heterotopias, and China's Hyperurbanization
£18.86
Hong Kong University Press The Pusan International Film Festival South
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£19.00
Hong Kong University Press Wang Renmei: The Wildcat of Shanghai
Book SynopsisWang Renmei was on a fast track to become one of China's leading film stars in the 1930s. Her early films were received with magnificent praise by audiences and critics alike, though she later lamented that she became famous too early and never had a chance to properly study acting. The film Song of the Fishermen in which she sang and played a major role was the first Chinese motion picture to win an International Award in Moscow in 1935. Wang's personal struggles reflected the turbulent period from the end of the Qing dynasty to the rise of Deng Xiaoping. This study explores her artistic achievements amid the prevalent anti-feminist and feudal society in China prior to the founding of the People's Republic in 1949-attitudes which contributed to the downturn of Wang's promising career and forced her to accept various bit parts among the more than twenty films in which she appeared. In addition, personal problems as well as the Anti-Rightist Movement and the Cultural Revolution led to her hospitalization for mental illness. Wang's life is emblematic of the experiences of many left-wing and Communist Party members from the Shanghai film community who were viewed with suspicion and enmity by the Yan'an clique headed by Mao and later the Gang of Four. Wang's performances in World War II for the Nationalist troops as well as her work with the US forces in China had a dire effect on her career after 1949. Yet today, her films are being discovered again. About the DVDWild Rose???[Ye Meigui] 1932Xiao Feng or Little Wind, played by Wang Renmei, is a young girl who has lost her parents. Jiang Bo, played by Jin Yan, is a wealthy painter who discovers Xiao Feng in a small fishing village and makes her his model. When Xiao Feng is left homeless after a fire destroys her home, Jiang takes her to Shanghai to live with his parents, but Xiao Feng is later expelled from the mansion by Jiang's father because she cannot act the part of a sophisticated Shanghainese.
£19.00
