Imagining Reality; The Faber Book of the Documentary

Faber & Faber, London, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. list of illustrations, introduction by editors, acknowledgements and index. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photographic stills from various documentaries. Black coloured boards with white coloured titles to the backstrip. A little bumping to the backstrip edges and browning to the text block edges. Browning to the internal text. There is a red rubber stamp, "Publication Date" to the free front end paper. Photographic dustwrapper, with a red wash, with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper panels. Original price sticker, still in situ, lower right-hand corner of the front fold over panel. A book about the documentary as a film genre and its directors. "... Kevin Macdonald and Mark Cousins have compiled a wide-ranging collection of writings about and by documentary film-makers and their work. Among the directors represented Chris Marker,Dziga Vertov, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Errol Morris, Nick Broomfield, Roberts Flaherty, Marcel Ophulf, Claude Lanzmann, Humphrey Jennings, Santiago Alvarez, Shohei Imamura, Orson Wells, Richard Leacock and John Grierson. Steering clear of the academic, theoretical approach that dominates most writing about documentary, the editors have selected pieces for their clarity, originality and capacity to inspire. Underlying the entire collection is the passionate belief that documentary can be as diverse and imaginatively rich as non-fiction writing -- by turns polemic, personal, journalistic, emotive and politic." -- from the rear panel blurb. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XII, 404 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; Film; Essays; ISBN: 0571177239. ISBN/EAN: 9780571177233. Inventory No: 0109863. . 9780571177233