Author: Keith Beattie

At the height of the Vietnam War, American society was so severely fragmented that it seemed that Americans may never again share common concerns. The media and other commentators represented the imp …

This wide-ranging and insightful collection of interviews with D. A. Pennebaker (1925–2019) spans the prolific career of this pioneer of observational cinema. From the 1950s, Pennebaker made document …

Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of representationa …

Documentary productions encompass remarkable representations of surprising realities. How do documentaries achieve their ends? What types of documentaries are there? What factors are implicated in th …

This wide-ranging and insightful collection of interviews with D. A. Pennebaker (1925-2019) spans the prolific career of this pioneer of observational cinema. From the 1950s, Pennebaker made document …

Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of representationa …

This volume is the first book-length study of the extensive career and prolific works of D.A. Pennebaker, one of the pioneers of direct cinema, a documentary form that emphasizes observation and a st …

Dont Look Back, a documentary film of Bob Dylan’s 1965 England tour, is recognised as a landmark work in the field of documentary film-making, contributing to the cultural life of an era. This text e …