Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Novelties, Spectacles and the Documentary Impulse
- 2 Virtual Travels and the Tourist Gaze
- 3 Serious Play: Documentary and the Avant-Grade
- 4 Activism and Advocacy: The Depression Era
- 5 Idea-Weapons: Documentary Propaganda
- 6 ‘Uncontrolled’ Situations: Direct Cinema
- 7 Relative Truths: Documentary and Postmaodernity
- 8 Media Wars: Documentary Dispersion
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Novelties, Spectacles and the Documentary Impulse
- 2 Virtual Travels and the Tourist Gaze
- 3 Serious Play: Documentary and the Avant-Grade
- 4 Activism and Advocacy: The Depression Era
- 5 Idea-Weapons: Documentary Propaganda
- 6 ‘Uncontrolled’ Situations: Direct Cinema
- 7 Relative Truths: Documentary and Postmaodernity
- 8 Media Wars: Documentary Dispersion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- American Documentary FilmProjecting the Nation, pp. v - viPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2011