Nonfiction Film

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ISBN: 9780253207067 | 0253207061
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Copyright: 7/1/1992

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"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

Preface

xvii

Acknowledgments

xix

PART ONE (1820--1933) Foundations of the Nonfiction Film

Reality Perceived and Recorded

(14)

From Memory to Movement

(4)

Persistence of Vision: Theories and Technologies

(6)

Still Photography

Series Photography

Cinematography

The Realist Impulse in Nineteenth-Century Art

(4)

The First Films

(25)

The First Films

(2)

Louis and Auguste Lumiere

(9)

The Lumieres' Contribution to Technology

The Lumiere Films

The Lumieres and Thomas A. Edison

The Lumieres' Overall Contribution to the Nonfiction Film

The Factual Film After the Lumieres

(2)

The Nonfiction Film and War: 1898--1918

(12)

Before World War I

World War I: 1914--18

British and Allied Films

German War Films

U.S. Government Films about World War I

American Commercial Films about World War I

Exploration, Romanticism, and the Western Avant-Garde

(23)

Factual Films of Travel and Exploration

(4)

Film and the American West

Films about Native Americans

The American Romantic Tradition

(9)

Robert Flaherty

Merian C. Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack

The Soviet Naturalist Tradition

(2)

Alexander Dovzhenko

The Western Avant-Garde

(8)

Alberto Cavalcanti

Walther Ruttmann

Joris Ivens

The Beginnings of the Documentary Film

(24)

Beginnings of the Soviet Propagandist Tradition

(12)

Dziga Vertov

Esther Shub and the Compilation Film

John Grierson and the Early British Documentary Film

(12)

Empire Marketing Board Film Unit

PART TWO (1933--1939) Documentary Films to Change the World

The British Documentary Movement: 1933--1945

(23)

General Post Office Film Unit Under John Grierson: 1933--37

(11)

Robert Flaherty and John Grierson: Industrial Britain (1933)

Basil Wright: The Song of Ceylon (1934)

Basil Wright and Harry Watt: Night Mail (1936)

Grierson's Influence

GPO Film Unit After John Grierson: 1937--40

100

(4)

The Independent Documentary Film: Production Outside the GPO Film Unit

104

(6)

Overall Achievements of British Documentary Film Movement in the 1930

110

(2)

European and Asian Nonfiction Film: 1930--1939

112

(25)

Beginnings of the Film on Art

113

(2)

The Netherlands

115

(3)

Joris Ivens

John Ferno

Belgium

118

(3)

Charles Dekeukeleire

Andre Cauvin

Henri Storck

Sweden

121

(1)

Denmark

122

(1)

Spain

122

(1)

Germany

122

(11)

Organization of the Nazi Propaganda Film Effort Nazi Ideology

Prewar Nazi Propaganda Films

Leni Riefenstahl

Triumph of the Will (1935)

Olympia (1938)

Japan

133

(1)

India

134

(1)

China

135

(2)

American Nonfiction Film: 1930--1939

137

(36)

Beginnings of the American Film on Art

137

(2)

The Romantic Tradition Continues

139

(3)

Robert Flaherty

Man of Aran (1934)

The European Political Documentary Comes to America

142

(4)

Joris Ivens

American Film on the Left: 1930--42

146

(5)

The Workers' Film and Photo League of America (1930--35)

Nykino (1935--37)

Frontier Film Group (1936--42)

Native Land (1942)

Pare Lorentz

151

(11)

The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)

The River (1937)

The United States Film Service

The Fight for Life (1940)

Robert Flaherty and The Land (1942)

Screen Journalism

162

(4)

American Newsreel During the 1930s

``The March of Time'' (1935--51)

``This is America'' (1942--51)

Willard Van Dyke

166

(7)

The City (1939)

PART THREE (1939--1945) Nonfiction Films for World War II

British Films for World War II

173

(27)

Organizing for War-Film Production

175

(3)

Concerns of British Wartime Films

178

(18)

Domestic Defense

Firefighting

Wartime Living Conditions

Training Films for Civilians and the Armed Forces

Farming, Gardening, Food, and Nutrition

Health

Wartime Industry

Britain and the Sea

Labor, Women, and Youth

Anti-Enemy Propaganda

Combat Films

Envisioning the Postwar World

Grierson and the National Film Board of Canada

196

(4)

European and Asian Films for World War II

200

(16)

Axis Films

200

(7)

The Nazi Propaganda Film

Wartime Nazi Propaganda Films

Films about Germany

Films about the Enemy

Japan

Italy

Anti-Axis Films

207

(4)

Russia

China

French Cinema of the Occupation and Resistance

211

(5)

Vichy Government Propaganda Films

Films of the French Resistance

American Films for World War II

216

(25)

American Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda for World War II

218

(23)

United States Office of War Information

Frank Capra: Military Training and Civilian

Information Films

The ``Why We Fight'' Series

Incentive Films

Combat Films

John Ford

John Huston

Films on the Effects of War

PART FOUR (1945--1960) Nonfiction Films After World War II

British Nonfiction Film After World War II

241

(14)

Great Britain After the War

241

(8)

The British Film Industry

The Continuing Documentary Tradition

British Free Cinema: 1956--59

249

(6)

European, Asian, and Canadian Nonfiction Film after World War II

255

(21)

Europe

255

(15)

Italy

Neorealism

Films on Art

Belgium

Films on Domestic Subjects

Films on Colonial Subjects

Films on Art

France

Alain Resnais

Georges Franju

Films on Art

Other European Films

Asia

270

(2)

India

Japan

China

Canada

272

(4)

The National Film Board of Canada

American Nonfiction Film After World War II

276

(23)

Postwar Government Film Production

277

(3)

The United States Information Agency

Television Documentary

280

(1)

Postwar Independent Film Production

281

(18)

Robert Flaherty and Louisiana Story (1948)

Independent Films of the 1950s

Children

Health

Labor

Urban Life

Random Observations of American Life

Ethnographic Film Records of Foreign Cultures

Films on Art

Film Biographies

Documenting War

PART FIVE (1960--1985) Continuing Traditions and New Directions

American Renaissance in the 1960s: The New Nonfiction Film

299

(30)

Cinema Verite and Direct Cinema

300

(4)

Cinema Verite: Historical and Theoretical Origins

Cinema Verite and Direct Cinema: A Comparison and Contrast

American Direct Cinema

304

(6)

Major Direct Cinema Filmmakers and Films

Robert Drew

Richard Leacock

Donn Alan Pennebaker

American Nonfiction Film Outside the Direct Cinema Movement

310

(13)

National Politics, Elections, and Leaders

Justice and Civil Rights

Youth

Poverty

Vietnam

National Defense

Society

Native Americans

Foreign Subjects

Portraits

Canadian Film

323

(6)

Canadian Arts, Culture, and Personalities

Human Relationships

Political Conscience

Tradition and Change in the 1970s

329

(28)

New American and European Masters of the Nonfiction Film

329

(20)

Albert and David Maysles

Frederick Wiseman

Emile De Antonio

Louis Malle

Marcel Ophuls

American Independent Filmmaking

349

(2)

British and European Independent Filmmaking

351

(2)

American and European Films on Art

353

(4)

American Films on Art

European Films on Art

New Voices of the 1980s

357

(18)

Issues Shaping Nonfiction Film in the 1980s

357

(4)

Liberation Filmmaking

361

(9)

Films by and about Women

Films by Lesbians and Gay Men

Nonfiction Film in Third World and Non-Western Countries

370

(5)

India

East and Southeast Asia

Latin America

The Middle East and Africa

Afterword: One Hundred Years of Nonfiction Film

375

(6)

Legacy of the 1980s

375

(2)

Developing Technologies

377

(1)

Financing and Distribution

377

(1)

Film Theory and Criticism

378

(3)

Notes

381

(42)

Works Cited

423

(18)

Index of Film Titles

441

(26)

Index of Names

467

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