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MFA Social Documentary Film
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Filmmaking for Change by Call Number: PN1995.9.D6 F585 2012ISBN: 9781615931217Publication Date: 2012-10-01Industry veteran Jon Fitzgerald has developed a new manual for making socially relevant films on a low budget, from concept development through production, from marketing through distribution. In straightforward sections, with descriptive breakdowns for each category, the book presents a new paradigm for filmmaking in the modern age, including case studies on numerous films and advice from industry professionals on each topic.
Principles of Visual Anthropology by Call Number: GN347 .P75 2003tISBN: 9783110179309Publication Date: 2003-08-13
Imagining reality : the Faber book of the documentary by Call Number: PN1995.9.D6 I46 1998ISBN: 0571192025Publication Date: 1998-04-01Contents: Introduction: Brazil and the Afro Atlantic Diaspora: Recontextualizing Abolition Ch. 1. "Order and Progress": Elite Objectives and the Shaping of Abolition Ch. 2. Self Determination: The Politics of Identity Ch. 3. Sao Paulo: The New City The New Negro Ch. 4. The Politics of Race in Sao Paulo Ch. 5. Salvador: Afro Bahia in an Era of Change Ch. 6. The Politics of Culture in Salvador Conclusion: "Full Free."
The Corporeal Image by Call Number: GN347 .M32 2006ISBN: 0691121559Publication Date: 2005-10-30In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas from his widely praised Transcultural Cinema and argues for a new conception of how visual images create human knowledge in a world in which the value of seeing has often been eclipsed by words.
Transcultural Cinema by Call Number: GN347 .M33 1998ISBN: 0691012342Publication Date: 1998-12-27David MacDougall is a pivotal figure in the development of ethnographic cinema and visual anthropology. As a filmmaker, he has directed in Africa, Australia, India, and Europe. His prize-winning films (many made jointly with his wife, Judith MacDougall) include The Wedding Camels, Lorang's Way, To Live with Herds, A Wife among Wives, Takeover, PhotoWallahs, and Tempus de Baristas. As a theorist, he articulates central issues in the relation of film to anthropology, and is one of the few documentary filmmakers who writes extensively on these concerns. The essays collected here address, for instance, the difference between films and written texts and between the position of the filmmaker and that of the anthropological writer.
Directing the Documentary by Call Number: PN1995.9.D6 R33 2009ISBN: 9780240810898Publication Date: 2009-02-13Please visit:
www.directingthedocumentary.com
for the book's companion website.
Documentary Storytelling by Call Number: PN1995.9.D6 B394 2011ISBN: 9780240812410Publication Date: 2010-08-31Documentary Storytelling offers advice for producers, directors, editors, and cinematographers seeking to make ethical and effective nonfiction films, and for those who use these films to educate, inform, and inspire. Special interview chapters explore storytelling as practiced by renowned producers, directors, and editors. This third edition has been updated and expanded, with discussion of newer films including Waltz with Bashir and Why We Fight.
The Shut up and Shoot Documentary Guide by Call Number: PN1995.9.D6 A78 2008ISBN: 9780240809359Publication Date: 2007-09-10Comes with a supplementary DVD. Inquire at the front desk.
A New History of Documentary Film by Call Number: PN1995.9.D6 E46 2012ISBN: 9781441124579Publication Date: 2012-04-26A New History of Documentary Film, Second Edition offers a much-needed resource, considering the very rapid changes taking place within documentary media. Building upon the best-selling 2005 edition, Betsy McLane keeps the same chronological examination, factual reliability, ease of use and accessible prose style as before, while also weaving three new threads - Experimental Documentary, Visual Anthropology and Environmental/Nature Films - into the discussion. She provides emphasis on archival and preservation history, present practices, and future needs for documentaries. Along with preservation information, specific problems of copyright and fair use, as they relate to documentary, are considered.
Finally, A History of Documentary Film retains and updates the recommended readings and important films and the end of each chapter from the first edition, including the bibliography and appendices. Impossible to talk learnedly about documentary film without an audio-visual component, a companion website will increase its depth of information and overall usefulness to students, teachers and film enthusiasts.
Experimental Ethnography by Call Number: PN1995.9.D6 R79 1999ISBN: 0822323192Publication Date: 1999-05-12Experimental film and ethnographic film have long been considered separate, autonomous practices on the margins of mainstream cinema. By exploring the interplay between the two forms, Catherine Russell throws new light on both the avant-garde and visual anthropology.
Russell provides detailed analyses of more than thirty-five films and videos from the 1890s to the 1990s and discusses a wide range of film and videomakers, including Georges Méliès, Maya Deren, Peter Kubelka, Ray Birdwhistell, Jean Rouch, Su Friedrich, Bill Viola, Kidlat Tahimik, Margaret Mead, Tracey Moffatt, and Chantal Akerman. Arguing that video enables us to see film differently—not as a vanishing culture but as bodies inscripted in technology, Russell maps the slow fade from modernism to postmodern practices.
Sweet and Savage by Call Number: PN1995.9.S284 G66 2006ISBN: 1900486490Publication Date: 2006-05-01Mondo Cane in 1962 was the blueprint for a shocking, controversial and influential documentary film cycle. Known collectively as "mondo films" or "shockumentaries," this enduring series of films is a precursor of the reality TV show.
A box-office draw for three decades and now a staple of the video rental market, these explosive exposs would often pass fabricated scenes as fact in order to give the public a sensationalist, highly emotive view of the world. Sweet & Savage is the first-ever English-language book devoted exclusively to the mondo documentary film. A study of mondo as a global film phenomenon, it includes a detailed examination of the key films and includes exclusive interviews with the godfathers of this cult genre.
The Filmmaker's Handbook 2013 : a comprehensive guide for the digital age by Call Number: TR850 .P54 2012ISBN: 9780452297289Publication Date: 2012-11-27
American Cinematographer Manual Vol. I by Call Number: TR850 .A57 2007 v.1 & v.2ISBN: 9781467568319Publication Date: 2013-01-01
The Camera Assistant's Manual by Call Number: TR850 .E37 2005ISBN: 9780240805580Publication Date: 2005-01-28
The Five C's of Cinematography by Call Number: TR850 .M33 1998ISBN: 187950541XPublication Date: 1998-03-01
Set Lighting Technician's Handbook : film lighting equipment, practice, and electrical distribution by Call Number: TR891 .B68 2010ISBN: 9780240810751Publication Date: 2010-08-02
The Technique of Film Editing by Call Number: TR899 .R45 2010ISBN: 9780240521855Publication Date: 2009-09-29
Film Editing : great cuts every filmmaker and movie lover must know by Call Number: TR899 .C46 2009ISBN: 9781932907629Publication Date: 2009-10-01
The Technique of Film and Video Editing : history, theory, and practice by Call Number: TR899 .D26 2007ISBN: 9780240807652Publication Date: 2006-11-14
The Conversations : Walter Murch and the art of editing film by Call Number: TR849.M86 O53 2002ISBN: 0375413863Publication Date: 2002-09-17
In the Blink of an Eye : a perspective on film editing by Call Number: TR899 .M87 2001ISBN: 1879505622Publication Date: 2001-08-01
Nonlinear : a guide to digital film and video editing by Call Number: TR899 .R83 1995ISBN: 0937404845Publication Date: 1995-10-01
Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound by Call Number: TK7881.4 .Y48 2003ISBN: 0240805259Publication Date: 2003-04-07
Sound for Film and Television by Call Number: TK7881.4 .H63 2002ISBN: 0240804538Publication Date: 2001-12-13
Sound Design : the expressive power of music, voice, and sound effects in cinema / by Call Number: TR897 .S66 2001ISBN: 0941188264Publication Date: 2001-10-25
Sound-on-Film : interviews with creators of film sound by Call Number: PN1995.7 .L63 1994ISBN: 0275944433Publication Date: 1994-08-30
The SVA Library has approximately 600 documentary films in its ever expanding video collection. If there are films that you want to see or simply feel as though we should have them in our collection, please let us know. Suggestion is our favorite way to develop the collection.
Documentary films are filed under V-D and then arranged by director.
We also have videos about documentary film:
Capturing reality: the art of documentary by Call Number: V-D F477 Cap DVDPublication Date: 2009From cinema-verite pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick moviemakers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, some of the doc world's brightest lights reflect upon the unique power of the genre in CAPTURING REALITY: THE ART OF DOCUMENTARY.
Documentary Filmmaking: Tips from the Trenches by Call Number: V-AT B376 Doc DVDPublication Date: 2008Documentary Filmmaking: Tips from the Trenches features new and seasoned filmmakers as they talk about technical, legal, ethical and business issues of documentary film covering everything from finding a story to shooting, editing, and considering legal and ethical issues to tackling financial and distribution challenges.
Hear directly from Academy Award winners and nominees, first time filmmakers and 50-year veterans as they offer tips from the trenches of filmmaking in brief interview sequences perfect for the classroom or living room. Because the DVD was created in an interactive platform, professors can use it for classes on many different levels and because the documentary is inherently interdisciplinary, this can be used in classes beyond communications, to study the social significance of film or how film is an agent for social change. Further this DVD is an educational tool that could be used by seasoned and aspiring filmmakers as a way to foster idea sharing among professionals.
- A-Z DatabasesAn A-Z list of databases available through the SVA Library.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is a streaming video platform with a "Netflix-like" user experience and a broad, curated selection of documentaries, indie movies, classics, feature films and training videos. Films can be watched from anywhere, anytime by current students, faculty, and staff.
- Film & Television Literature Index This link opens in a new window
Provides cover to cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more.
- Art & Architecture in Video This link opens in a new window
Art and Architecture in Video is an online streaming film collection with 690 videos containing over 500 hours of documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis.
- Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Formerly Art Source. Offers broad coverage of art topics, including painting, photography, sculpture advertising art, art history, film, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design archaeology, architecture, decorative arts, folk art, textiles and more. Full text access to over 630 art and design journals with coverage from 1929 to the present.
- Artstor This link opens in a new window
**Artstor is moving to the JSTOR platform on August 1, 2024** Documents artistic traditions across many time periods and cultures including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design. Digital images come from museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers. The collection is over 2+ million images. Users must create a personal account.
- Documentary Film Festivals"Looking for a festival to screen your documentary? We've compiled a list of domestic and international film festivals that feature documentaries in their lineup, and highlighted the ones with the most clout."
- Docs in ProgressDocs In Progress® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. We are governed by a Board of Directors.
MISSION
Docs In Progress gives individuals the tools to tell stories through documentary film to educate, inspire, and transform the way people view their world.
Find funding ideas under their resources page.
