{"product_id":"9781119116240","title":"A Companion to Documentary Film History","description":"\u003ch1\u003eA Companion to Documentary Film History\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJoshua Malitsky\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Film \/ History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis volume offers a new and expanded history of the documentary form across a range of times and contexts, featuring original essays by leading historians in the field\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a contemporary media culture suffused with competing truth claims, documentary media have become one of the most significant means through which we think in depth about the past. The most rigorous collection of essays on nonfiction film and media history and historiography currently available, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Documentary Film History\u003c\/i\u003e offers an in-depth, global examination of central historical issues and approaches in documentary, and of documentary's engagement with historical and contemporary topics, debates, and themes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e's twenty original essays by prominent nonfiction film and media historians challenge prevalent conceptions of what documentary is and was, and explore its growth, development, and function over time. The authors provide fresh insights on the mode's reception, geographies, authorship, multimedia contexts, and movements, and address documentary's many aesthetic, industrial, historiographical, and social dimensions. This authoritative volume:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers both historical specificity and conceptual flexibility in approaching nonfiction and documentary media\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores documentary's multiple, complex geographic and geopolitical frameworks\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers a diversity of national and historical contexts, including Revolution-era Soviet Union, post-World War Two Canada and Europe, and contemporary China\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEstablishes new connections and interpretive contexts for key individual films and film movements, using new primary sources\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInterrogates established assumptions about documentary authorship, audiences, and documentary's historical connection to other media practices.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Documentary Film History\u003c\/i\u003e is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses covering documentary or nonfiction film and media, an excellent supplement for courses on national or regional media histories, and an important new resource for all film and media studies scholars, particularly those in nonfiction media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Malitsky\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and Director of the Center for Documentary Research and Practice at Indiana University. He works on a range of topics related to documentary and other nonfiction media genres and has published a number of articles on documentary history and theory including topics such as the relationship between documentary and nation-building, documentary and science, documentary studies and linguistic anthropology, and the sports documentary. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePost-Revolution Non-Fiction Film: Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27 April 2021\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781119116240\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e544\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378631635084,"sku":"9781119116240","price":189.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781119116240.jpg?v=1780145379","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781119116240","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}