PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Genres / Documentary

Paper · Semantic Scholar

The relevance of the study is caused by insufficient scholarly examination of the Islamic manuscript book as an integral artistic object, especially during the key period of transition from manuscript to early print culture. The aim of the work is to identify the interrelationship between material form, artistic design, and genre content of Central Asian manuscripts. The research was conducted using a comprehensive …

Reference · Wikidata

nonfictional motion picture

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

A documentary film is a nonfiction motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". The American author and media analyst Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries".

Book · DOAB

Women Filmmakers and the Welfare State compares conditions for diverse women filmmakers in relation to cultural movements, politics, and welfare state policy during the long 1970s. The book examines the expansion of women’s filmmaking and transnational collaboration across a range of genres, styles, and forms, foregrounding that film practices of the time were highly varied, ranging from women’s political and “consc…

Image · DPLA

Summer 2019 issue of Universitas: the magazine of Saint Louis University.