Author Archive for: ‘Patricia Aufderheide’

Philip C. Logan, Humphrey Jennings and British Documentary Film: A Re-Assessment Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-7546-6726-1 £70.00 (hb) 375 pp (Review copy supplied by Ashgate publishers) This is the latest in a sizeable body of work focusing on Humphrey Jennings, perhaps the most celebrated of the British Documentary filmmakers, and maker of works of the documentary canon …

Thomas Waugh, The Right to Play Oneself: Looking Back on Documentary Film Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780816645879 AUD$49.95 (pb) 352pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) Thomas Waugh is a senior scholar in documentary studies who has focused during his entire career on left-wing, dissident, and activist film, which he groups under the term “committed” …