The Conscience of Cinema

The Conscience of Cinema is not only a history of a rich and varied personal oeuvre by a prolific documentary maker who worked on every continent and through seven decades, from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is also the history of the aspiration to use documentary film to change the world by a committe...

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Main Author: Waugh, Thomas (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2016
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