Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film

Only 6 left in stock
£12.50
£25.00
£12.50
Subtotal: £12.50
10 customers are viewing this product
Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film

Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film

£25.00 £12.50

Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film

£25.00 £12.50

Charles Warren

Softcover | 15.21 x 2.69 x 22.68 cm | 396 pp

Wesleyan University Press | 1996 | 9780819562906

In essays by eleven of America's foremost writers, critics, and filmmakers, Beyond Document explores the full spectrum of nonfiction film and its creative possibilities. In addition to Charles Warren's broad introductory history of the genre, the book takes a close look at ethnographic films, cinema-verité, memoir and autobiography, docudramas, essay films, and newsreels, from classics like Night and Fog and Nanook of the North to more recent important work like Film about a Woman Who. . ., Harlan County, U.S.A., Sans Soleil, and Forest of Bliss.

Representations of reality are increasingly contested, in courtrooms and in Congress, as well as in art. Asking what the art of film can achieve, Helene Keyssar considers the history of nonfiction films by women; Jay Cantor discusses film investigations of the Holocaust; Patricia Hampl looks at how autobiographical films render experience into narrative; Robert Gardner questions the filmmaker's"impulse to preserve" ; and poet Susan Howe explores structures of mourning in several filmmakers. All the book's essays provide deeply felt understanding of documentary film, and of how we live with, and within, images.

Contributors
Jay Cantor, Robert Gardener, Patricia Hampl, Maureen Howard, Susan Howe, Helene Keyssar, Phillip Lopatte, Vlada Petric, William Rothman, Charles Warren, Eliot Weinberger.

CLICK & COLLECT

Order before 4pm to collect next day.

To allow us time to prepare your orders please collect from 10am onward.

All collections are from our warehouse in Melksham, Wiltshire (address found at the bottom of the page).

_________________

DELIVERY TO ENGLAND, WALES & SCOTLAND

Orders under £75
£4.99
Tracked | Shipped within 2 business days | Delivery 1-2 days after shipping

Orders £75 and above
FREE
Tracked | Shipped within 2 business days | Delivery 1-2 days after shipping

__________________

DELIVERY TO NORTHERN IRELAND

£9.99
Tracked | Shipped within 2 business days | Delivery 3-5 days after shipping

___________________

NON-UK DELIVERY

For shipping to destinations outside the UK please email us to request a quote.

30-day return policy

  • You have 30 days after receiving your item to request a return.
  • The item must be in the same condition that you received it.
  • You will have to pay for return postage costs.

To request a return:

  • email details to guy@booksaboutart.co.uk
  • If your return is accepted, we'll send instructions on how and where to send your package. Items sent back to us without first requesting a return will not be accepted.

Refunds

We will notify you once we've received and inspected your return. If approved, you'll be automatically refunded on your original payment method. Please remember it can take a few days for your bank or credit card company to process the refund.

Exceptions / non-returnable items

  • Items described as 'non-mint'
  • Gift cards

You may also like

Vendor: Vendor
Example product title
£12.50
£25.00
£12.50
Vendor: Vendor
Example product title
£12.50
£25.00
£12.50
Vendor: Vendor
Example product title
£12.50
£25.00
£12.50
Vendor: Vendor
Example product title
£12.50
£25.00
£12.50
Vendor: Vendor
Example product title
£12.50
£25.00
£12.50
Vendor: Vendor
Example product title
£12.50
£25.00
£12.50