Part 2Documentaries and Film Language
CHAPTER 5 DOCUMENTARY LANGUAGE
Technology and Screen Language
Beginnings (The Lumi è re Brothers’ First Films, 1895 – 1897 [Film])
Birth of the Documentary (Nanook of the North, 1922 [Film])
Naming the Documentary and Facing Its Paradoxes
The Russians Are Coming (Man with the Movie Camera, 1929 [Film])
Direct Cinema and Cinéma Vérité
Observational Cinema (Salesman, 1969; Checkpoint, 2003 [Film])
Participatory Cinema (Chronicle of a Summer, 1961; Best Boy, 1979 [Film 5])
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