Documentaries and Newsreels
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Abel, Richard. “Charge and Countercharge: ‘Documentary’ War Pictures in the USA, 1914–1916.” Film History: An International Journal 22, no. 4 (2010): 366-388.
Alexander, William. Film on the Left: American Documentary Film from 1931 to 1942. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.
Atkinson, Nathan S. “This is Crossroads: How Newsreels Made the 1946 Atomic Tests at Bikini Atoll Public.” PhD dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009.
Atkinson, Nathan S. “Newsreels as Domestic Propaganda: Visual Rhetoric at the Dawn of the Cold War.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 14, no. 1 (2011): 69–100.
Barnouw, Erik. Documentary: A History of the Nonfiction Film. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Barsam, Richard. Nonfiction Film- A Critical History. New York: Dutton, 1973.
Bradshaw Jr., John Elliot. “Projections of the Fatherland: Representations of Germany in the Hearst Newsreels, 1929-1939.” MA Thesis, University of Southern California, 2005.
Clark, Joseph E. “‘Canned History’: American Newsreels and the Commodification of Reality, 1927–1945.” PhD dissertation, Brown University, 2011.
Clark, Joseph. News Parade: The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.
Cooper, Mark Garrett, Sara Beth Levavy, Ross Melnick, and Mark Williams, eds. Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema, Television, and the Archive. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Devlin, Erin Krutko. “”It’s Only Convincing If They Say It Is”: Documenting Civil Rights Progress in the USIA’s Nine from Little Rock.” Film History: An International Journal 30, no. 4 (2018): 22-47.
Fielding, Raymond. The American Newsreel: A Complete History, 1911-1967. 2 ed. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.
Girgus, Sam B. America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America. Cambridge NY: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Graham, Cooper C., and Ron van Dopperen. “Nelson Edwards and the Newsreels: An American Life.” Film History: An International Journal 24, no. 3 (2012): 260-280.
Hanssen, Eirik Frisvold. “Symptoms of desire: Colour, Costume, and Commodities in Fashion Newsreels of the 1910s and 1920s.” Film History: An International Journal 21, no. 2 (2009): 107-121.
Klotman, Phyllis R., and Janet K. Kutler, eds. Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Films and Video. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Musser, Charles. “Carl Marzani and Union Films: Making Left-Wing Documentaries during the Cold War, 1946–53.” The Moving Image 9, no. 1 (2009): 104–160.
Naida García-Crespo. “Picturing ‘the Tightest Little Tyranny in the Caribbean’: The March of Time and a 1936 United States–Dominican Diplomatic Crisis.” Film History 29, no. 4 (2017): 89–111.
Ramírez, Gracia. “The March of Time: News Documentaries and the Dramaturgy of History.” Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal 54, no. 2 (2024): 39-58.
Snyder, Robert L. Pare Lorentz and the Documentary Film. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1994.
Stamm, Michael. “Watching News in Public: The Rituals and Responses of Newsreel Theater Audiences.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 63, no. 2 (2024): 96-118.
Thomas, Ellen S. “Scooping the Local Field: Oregon’s Newsreel Industry, 1911-1933.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 90:3 (Fall 1989): 229-304.
Wagner, Terry. “America’s Civil Rights Revolution: Three Documentaries About Emmett Till’s Murder in Mississippi (1955).” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 30:2 (2010): 187-201.
Warren, Shilyh. Subject to Reality: Women and Documentary Film. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.
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