100 Documentary Films

100 Documentaries provides concise and authoritative analysis of 100 key non-fiction films of world cinema, from the Lumiere brothers to Michael Moore. The volume features an introduction to the history and concerns of documentary film-making, as well as extensive cross-referencing and a wealth of images from the films discussed.

• cinema
• documentary film
• film
• Hollywood
• Jean-Luc Godard
• world cinema

The first book to offer concise and authoritative individual critical commentaries on some of the key documentary films.' - Sight& Sound

BARRY KEITH GRANT is Professor of Film Studies and Popular Culture at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology (2007), Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman (1992) and co-author, with Steve Blandford and Jim Hillier, of The Film Studies Dictionary (2001).
 
JIM HILLIER is Visiting Lecturer in Film at the University of Reading. He is the author of The New Hollywood (1993), the co-author of The Film Studies Dictionary (2001) and, with Alan Lovell, of Studies in Documentary (1972). His edited books include American Independent Cinema (2001) and two volumes of selected criticism from Cahiers du cinema (1985, 1986).

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