December 1, 1991 Reality Fictions: The Films of Frederick Wiseman Reality Fictions: The Films of Frederick Wiseman By Thomas W. Benson and Carolyn Anderson Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989 $45.00 Read more
December 1, 1991 Film And Reform: John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement Film and Reform: John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement By Ian Aitken Routledge £30 "He was more concerned with the representation of fish Read more
July 1, 1990 Above the Neck Skills Too many film students and their teachers think that preparing for a career in filmmaking has to do with learning how to manipulate interesting Read more
October 1, 1989 Book Review: New Challenges for Documentary New Challenges for Documentary Alan Rosenthal, editor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. 603 pages + xii + index. The documentary as a Read more
The First Family of Reality TV: Between the Covers with The Louds A review of Jeffrey Ruoff's 'An American Family: A Televised Life' Read more
Listen to Britain: 100 Docs from Across the Pond A Review, by Betsy A. McLane, of '100 British Documentaries' Read more
It's Academic: New Book on Robert Gardner Gives An Ivory-Tower's View of His Work This book on famed documentarian Robert Gardner's work is often mired in the arcana of academia. Read more
Now We Are Seven: Parsing 'The Up Series' Seven Up! By Stella Bruzzi BFI TV Classics 126 pages black & white and color photos The British Film Institute once again proves itself to be an Read more