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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])
From Silence to Sound: The Essay Film (Land Without Bread, 1932; Night Mail, 1936; Night and Fog, 1955 [Film 5])
Shooting Goes Mobile
Direct Cinema and Cinéma Vérité
Observational Cinema (Salesman, 1969; Checkpoint, 2003 [Film])
Participatory Cinema (Chronicle of a Summer, 1961; Best Boy, 1979 [Film 5])
Which Approach Is Best?
The Rise of Editing
Video Technology
Eclectic Filmmaking
Longitudinal Study (28 ...
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