Documentary film: the use of the film medium to interpret creatively and in social terms the life of the people as it exists in reality

An updated and expanded third edition. Includes an introduction to the cinema: its social aspects, economic basis and commercial development, propaganda, and film as art. Focuses on the subject of the documentary: the naturalist (romantic) tradition, the realist (continental tradition, the newsreel tradition, and the propaganda traditions in the Soviet Union, Britain, Germany, and Italy. Section IV deals with the technical side of documentary filmmaking. Added material about documentary film since 1939 with special attention paid to the development of documentary traditions in countries around the world.

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection