Now brought completely up to date, the new edition of this classic work on documentary films and filmmaking surveys the history of the genre from 1895 to the present day. With myriad social upheavals over the past decade, documentaries have enjoyed an international renaissance; here Barnouw considers the medium in the light of an entirely new political and social climate. He examines as well the latest filmmaking technology and the effects that video cassettes and cable television are having on the production of documentaries.
Like the previous editions, Documentary is filled with photographs, many of them rare, collected during the author's travels around the world.
Covering the full course of the documentary from Louis Lumiere's first effort to such recent landmark productions as Shoah and the Ken Burns Civil War series, this book makes the growing importance of a unique blend of art and reality accessible and understandable to all film lovers.
Praise for Previous Editions:
"The whole panorama has been richly researched and compactly organized into easy prose by Barnouw, writing at the peak of his competence." Variety
"Erik Barnouw puts film history in the mainstream of human history as few others have done before. He reminds us of the powers of film to instruct, exhilarate, excite and deceive, and shows how these powers have been used in our time." Daniel J. Boorstin
Erik Barnouw, now retired, was Chief of the Library of Congress's Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, and long headed Columbia University's film division. His books include the prize-winning three-volume History of Broadcasting in the United States, as well as Tube of Plenty, The Sponsor, and The Magician and the Cinema.
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