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407 selected bibliography Below I have selected a few books that I think may be useful to you in your work. These books will either help you consider the wider issues of documentary or assist you with very specific aspects of filmmaking. One or two of them, such as the writings of Joris Ivens and Paul Rotha, are simply books that I have long admired and that have very much helped me in my own development. Barnouw, Erik. Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film. London: Oxford University Press, 1993. Bluehm, William. Documentary in American Television. New York: Hastings House, 1965. Browne, Steven E. Videotape Editing: A Postproduction Primer. Boston: Focal Press, 1993. Burder, John. The Technique of Editing 16mm Films. London: Focal Press, 1975. Cheshire, David. The Video Manual. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982. Corner, John. The Art of Record. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1996 Crittenden, Roger. The Thames and Hudson Manual of Film Editing. 2d ed. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995. Dancyger, Ken. The Technique of Film and Video Editing. 2d ed. Boston: Focal Press, 1997. DiZazzo, Ray. Corporate Scriptwriting. Boston: Focal Press, 1992. Donaldson, Michael C. Clearance and Copyright: Everything the Independent Filmmaker Needs to Know. Los Angeles: Silman James Press, 2003. Gregory, Mollie. Making Films Your Business. New York: Schocken, 1979. Hampe, Barry. Making Documentary Films and Reality Videos. New York: Henry Holt, 1997. Ivens, Joris. The Camera and I. New York: International Publishers, 1969. Jacobs, Lewis, ed. The Documentary Tradition, 2d ed. New York: Norton, 1979. Levin, G. Roy. Documentary Explorations: Fifteen Interviews with Filmmakers . Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971. Selected Bibliography 408 Lovell, Allan, and Jim Hillier. Studies in Documentary. New York: Viking, 1972. Macdonald, Kevin, and Mark Cousins. Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary. London: Faber, 1996 Mamber, Stephen. Cinema Verité in America. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974. Millerson, Gerald. Video Camera Techniques. Boston: Focal Press, 1983. Nichols, Bill. Representing Reality. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. Peyton, Patricia, ed. Reel Changes: A Guide to Social Issue Films. San Francisco: Film Fund, 1979. Pincus, Edward, and Steven Ascher. The Filmmakers Handbook. New York: Plume, 1984. Rabiger, Michael. Directing the Documentary. 3d ed. Boston: Focal Press, 1998. Renov, Michael, ed. Theorizing Documentary. New York: Routledge, 1993. Rosenthal, Alan. The Documentary Conscience: A Casebook in Filmmaking. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. ———. Jerusalem, Take One: Memoirs of a Jewish Filmmaker. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. ———. Why Docudrama? Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998. ———. Writing Docudrama: Dramatizing Reality for Film and TV. Boston : Focal Press, 1994. Rosenthal, Alan, and John Corner. New Challenges for Documentary. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005. Rotha, Paul. Documentary Diary. New York: Hill and Wang, 1973. Silverston, Roger. The Making of a BBC Documentary. London: British Film Institute, 1985. Swain, Dwight. Film Scriptwriting. New York: Hastings House, 1981. Warshawski, Morrie. Shaking the Money Tree. Los Angeles: Michael Wiese Books, 1994. Waugh, Thomas, ed. Show Us Life: Toward a History and Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1984. Wiese, Michael. Film and Video Marketing. Boston: Focal Press, 1989. ———. The Independent Film and Videomaker’s Guide. Boston: Focal Press, 1984. ———. Money for Film and Video Artists. New York: American Council of the Arts, 1994. Winston, Brian. Lies, Damn Lies and Documentaries. London: BFI, 2000. ...

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