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Abel, Richard. “Charge and Countercharge: \u2018Documentary\u2019 War Pictures in the USA, 1914\u20131916.” Film History: An International Journal<\/em> 22, no. 4 (2010): 366-388.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander, William. Film on the Left: American Documentary Film from 1931 to 1942<\/em>. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atkinson, Nathan S. \u201cThis is\u00a0Crossroads<\/em>: How Newsreels\u00a0Made\u00a0the 1946 Atomic Tests at Bikini Atoll Public.\u201d PhD dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atkinson, Nathan S. \u201cNewsreels as Domestic Propaganda: Visual Rhetoric at the Dawn of the Cold War.\u201d\u00a0Rhetoric and Public Affairs<\/em>\u00a014, no. 1 (2011): 69\u2013100.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barnouw, Erik.\u00a0\u00a0Documentary: A History of the Nonfiction Film<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barsam, Richard.\u00a0 Nonfiction Film- A Critical History<\/em>. New York: Dutton, 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bradshaw Jr., John Elliot.  \u201cProjections of the Fatherland: Representations of Germany in the Hearst Newsreels, 1929-1939.\u201d MA Thesis, University of Southern California, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark, Joseph E. \u201c\u2018Canned History\u2019: American Newsreels and the Commodification of Reality, 1927\u20131945.\u201d  PhD dissertation, Brown University, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark, Joseph.  News Parade: The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle<\/em>.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cooper, Mark Garrett, Sara Beth Levavy, Ross Melnick, and Mark Williams, eds.  Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema, Television, and the Archive<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devlin, Erin Krutko. “”It’s Only Convincing If They Say It Is”: Documenting Civil Rights Progress in the USIA’s Nine from Little Rock<\/em>.” Film History: An International Journal<\/em> 30, no. 4 (2018): 22-47.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fielding, Raymond.\u00a0\u00a0The American Newsreel: A Complete History, 1911-1967<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a02\u00a0ed.\u00a0\u00a0Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girgus, Sam B.\u00a0America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America.\u00a0<\/em>Cambridge NY: Cambridge University Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham, Cooper C., and Ron van Dopperen. “Nelson Edwards and the Newsreels: An American Life.” Film History: An International Journal<\/em> 24, no. 3 (2012): 260-280.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanssen, Eirik Frisvold. “Symptoms of desire: Colour, Costume, and Commodities in Fashion Newsreels of the 1910s and 1920s.” Film History: An International Journal<\/em> 21, no. 2 (2009): 107-121.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klotman, Phyllis R., and Janet K. Kutler, eds.\u00a0\u00a0Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Films and Video.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musser, Charles. \u201cCarl Marzani and Union Films: Making Left-Wing Documentaries during the Cold War, 1946\u201353.\u201d\u00a0The Moving Image <\/em>9, no. 1 (2009): 104\u2013160.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naida Garc\u00eda-Crespo. \u201cPicturing \u2018the Tightest Little Tyranny in the Caribbean\u2019:\u00a0The March of Time<\/em>\u00a0and a 1936 United States\u2013Dominican Diplomatic Crisis.\u201d\u00a0Film History<\/em>\u00a029, no. 4 (2017): 89\u2013111.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ram\u00edrez, Gracia. “The March of Time<\/em>: News Documentaries and the Dramaturgy of History.”\u00a0Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/em>\u00a054, no. 2 (2024): 39-58.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snyder, Robert L.\u00a0 Pare Lorentz and the Documentary Film<\/em>.\u00a0 Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stamm, Michael. “Watching News in Public: The Rituals and Responses of Newsreel Theater Audiences.”\u00a0Journal of Cinema and Media Studies<\/em>\u00a063, no. 2 (2024): 96-118.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas, Ellen S.\u00a0 \u201cScooping the Local Field: Oregon\u2019s Newsreel Industry, 1911-1933.\u201d Oregon Historical Quarterly<\/em> 90:3 (Fall 1989): 229-304.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wagner, Terry. \u201cAmerica\u2019s Civil Rights Revolution: Three Documentaries About Emmett Till\u2019s Murder in Mississippi (1955).\u201d\u00a0Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television\u00a0<\/em>30:2 (2010): 187-201.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warren, Shilyh.\u00a0\u00a0Subject to Reality: Women and Documentary Film<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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