Science fiction scholars believe that Murray Leinster’s 1945 short story, “First Contact,” was the original use of “First Contact” to represent the
Book Reviews
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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
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In a highly engaging new text, Open Space New Media Documentary: A Toolkit for Theory and Practice, authors Patricia R. Zimmerman and Helen De Michiel
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"Documentary editing is perhaps one of the most challenging intellectual feats on the planet…How does anyone do it?" Author, educator and film editor
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Joshua Glick's meticulously researched book, Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977, melds, as its title states, a
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Documentary Media: History, Theory, Practice by Broderick Fox. Routledge 2018" src="https://www.documentary.org/sites/default/files/images/magazine
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Visual communication is always an unreliable universal language… — Annette Danto Whatever happened to the credo “If I can see it, it must be true?”
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Metaphors on VisionBy Stan BrakhageRepublished by Anthology Film Archivesand Light Industry, September 2017 "Sex is a touchstone but not a foundation
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The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema by Patricia R. Zimmermann and Scott MacDonald. Published by Indiana University Press, 2017."
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True South By Jon Else Illustrated. 404 pages. Viking. $30. A corollary of the old adage, "You can't tell a book by its cover," may be, "You can tell