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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])

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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