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Book Description
An absorbing anthology...surveying some of the most exciting and exploratory films and filmmakers involved in the complex history of radical documentaries....Timely and significant. --THE INDEPENDENT In addition to providing a masterful introduction, Waugh begins each chapter with succinct, lucid comments....A valuable contribution to an understanding of documentary film and the rhetoric of social change. --QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH
About the Author
Thomas Waugh is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. His doctoral dissertation at Columbia University was on the work of Joris Ivens, and he has contributed extensively to "Jump Cut, Cineaste, Cinema Canada", and "The Body Politic". His current book in progress is "Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Film and Photography, 1850-1969".
Show Us Life,Thomas Waugh,Scarecrow Press,0810817063,Cinema/Film: Book,Documentary films,Educational And Documentary Films,Film & Video - General,History and criticism,Motion pictures,Performing Arts,Political aspects,Reference,Performing Arts / Film / General
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