Performing Arts History & Criticism
100 Documentary Films
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris
- Initial publish date
- May 2009
- Category
- History & Criticism
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781844572649
- Publish Date
- May 2009
- List Price
- $21.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781844572656
- Publish Date
- May 2009
- List Price
- $81
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Description
100 Documentaries provides concise and authoritative entries on one hundred key non-fiction films, from the Lumiere brothers and the beginnings of film history to the present day, including recent films such as Bowling for Columbine and March of the Penguins. In addition to the Introduction to the volume, which outlines the history, key periods and major debates in documentary cinema, each entry provides concise analysis, critical judgment and reference to key images and scenes, and cross-references to other films discussed help to place films in their historical and aesthetic contexts.
About the authors
Barry Keith Grant is a professor of film studies and popular culture at Brock University. He is the author or editor of twenty books, including 100 Documentary Films (with Jim Hillier, 2009), Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader (2007), Film Genre: Film Iconography to Ideology (2007), Film Genre Reader (2003) and The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (1996), and his work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He edits the Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television series for Wayne State University Press and the New Approaches to Film Genre series for Wiley Blackwell.
