10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEMIDOCUMENTARY»
Discover the use of
semidocumentary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
semidocumentary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Semidocumentary is a form of book, film, or television program presenting a fictional story that incorporates many factual details or actual events, or which is presented in a manner similar to a documentary.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s
And the linear, cause-and-effect development of the semidocumentary narrative
is fundamentally at odds with the convoluted structure of most noir thrillers.41 In
terms of character and theme, as Frank Krutnik argues, the semidocumentary ...
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'Un-American' Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era
19 Haden Guest likewise interprets the semidocumentary's fascination with the
processes of law-enforcement as a “collective expression of Hollywood's gradual
conservative turn,” calling attention to the parallels between the popularity of ...
Peter Stanfield, Frank Krutnik, Brian Neve, 2007
By the early 1950s, noir elements and semidocumentary elements, despite their
stylistic differences, had both been absorbed into the prevailing style of the era's
crime films. Rather than diminishing the transformative aspect of thrillers (see ...
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Documentary Theatre in the United States: An Historical ...
57 Nevertheless, it is a semidocumentary play because as Parham says, "Weiss
creates a situation in which Sade presents a play documenting the events of
1973 in the year 1808 "5S Weiss' s creation, therefore, is dependent upon
invented ...
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Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American ...
Whileits narrative and characterization firmly locate He Walked By Nightwithinthe
procedural semidocumentary tradition of 92nd Street, aspects ofthefilm's styleand
representations present more moraland politicalambiguity ...
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Street with No Name: A History of the Classic American Film Noir
T-Men uses a voice-of-God narration to introduce the serious mission of the
Treasury Department's law enforcement unit, with a further concession to
semidocumentary style that has a Treasury enforcer read a scripted account of
the vast ...
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Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and ...
12 In retrospect, one sees at least three types of cinema that developed out of this
liberationist movement: the semidocumentary, the didactic-fictional, and film
research. The semidocumentary depicts and denounces colonialism and/or
settler ...
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Historical Dictionary of Film Noir
... starring John Garfield; Crossfire, Dead Reckoning, and Ride the Pink Horse
focus on the troubled veteran; Henry Hathaway's Kiss of Death, a blending of the
semidocumentary and the noir thriller; Robert Montgomery's Chandler adaptation
...
Semidocumentary Farewell In 2009 a Dutch semidocumentary called 'Farewell'
was released, directed by Ditteke Mensink, consisting of footage of her and the
first Zeppelin flight around the world279.Variety described the documentary as ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEMIDOCUMENTARY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
semidocumentary is used in the context of the following news items.
Studio Films That Went After the Mob
A semidocumentary treatment of the Brooklyn-based hired killers known as Murder Incorporated, “The Enforcer” (recently released on DVD by Olive Films) ... «New York Times, Feb 14»
Not Quite How a Person Should Be
One of my personal interests in Heti's semidocumentary novel about a group of very appealing artist types in Toronto is that Heti's Misha used to be my Misha. «Slate Magazine, Jul 12»
Milestone reissues seminal 1961 film 'The Exiles' about rootless …
This 72-minute-long 1961 semidocumentary concerns the dusk-till-dawn, nowhere night of a group of Southwestern American Indians, circa 1960. They leave ... «Silicon Valley's Metro, Nov 09»
Visual Poetry: The Rhythms of Venezuela's Salt Workers
It's an attempt at a semidocumentary tone poem in the style of Robert J. Flaherty and Luchino Visconti, shot (by Giuseppe Nisoli) with a kind of Buñuelian ... «New York Times, Oct 09»
