On Documentary Film Styles: Historical and Sociological Perspectives

Frame grab from Человек с киноаппаратом / Chelovek s kinoapparatom/ Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929), a film mentioned in Carsten Heinze's introduction to the Documentary Film Styles. Historical and Sociological Perspectives issue of InterDisciplines - Journal of History and Sociology (Vol 4, No 1 [2013])

One of Film Studies For Free's regular automated web searches discovered the following, just published volume of essays of great interest to documentary specialists: an issue of InterDisciplines - Journal of History and Sociology (Vol 4, No 1 [2013]) on Documentary Film Styles. Historical and Sociological Perspectives.

 

Each essay has much to recommend it, but FSFF particularly enjoyed Tanja Seider's discussion of the essay film in a postcolonial context, along with Bernt Schnettler's comprehensive study of visual research methods

 

The Table of Contents is pasted in below with all the links.

• Introduction: Historical and Sociological Aspects of Documental Pictures PDF  by Carsten Heinze

• Notes on the History and Development of Visual Research Methods PDF  by Bernt Schnettler

• The Factual Treatment of Actuality: The Emergence of Educational Film in the 1920s and its Relation to Documentary Film Proper PDF  by Laurel E. Ahnert

• Documentary Film in Media Transformation PDF  by Thomas Weber

• Postcolonial Historiography in the Essay Film: >De-Colonizing< Sound and Image PDF  by Tanja Seider

• Complete Issue PDF
• Cover Picture, Front Matter, Content PDF