August 22, 2019
ReFocus: The American Directors Series , from Edinburgh University Press, has an admirable mission statement: “The series ignores no director who
Reality Ink
July 31, 2019
Science fiction scholars believe that Murray Leinster’s 1945 short story, “First Contact,” was the original use of “First Contact” to represent the
July 24, 2019
At IDA’s 2018 Getting Real Conference, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Firelight Media and A-Docs collaborated on a series of panels entitled #Decolonize Docs
January 24, 2019
In a highly engaging new text, Open Space New Media Documentary: A Toolkit for Theory and Practice , authors Patricia R. Zimmerman and Helen De
October 11, 2018
"Documentary editing is perhaps one of the most challenging intellectual feats on the planet…How does anyone do it?" Author, educator and film editor
August 30, 2018
Joshua Glick's meticulously researched book, Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977 , melds, as its title states, a
April 18, 2018
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January 16, 2018
Visual communication is always an unreliable universal language… — Annette Danto Whatever happened to the credo “If I can see it, it must be true?”
August 24, 2017
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January 17, 2017
When film theoretician, professor, author and critic Bill Nichols comes out with a new book, we sit up and take notice. His ten previously published