by Erik Barnouw · GEDISA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474325638
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«El documental. Historia y estilo» is Erik Barnouw's essay on the history of documentary film, published by Gedisa in paperback (360 pages, in Spanish).
A reference work that traces the evolution of documentary film from the early experiments of Louis Lumière to titles such as Shoah and Ken Burns's series The Civil War. Barnouw analyses the political, social, technological and aesthetic dimensions of the genre, and explains how changes in technique expanded its subjects, treatments and its presence on television and video.
The back cover places the volume in Gedisa's Multimedia Series and includes a biographical note on the author, who directed the film division of Columbia University.
A book for film students, filmmakers and readers interested in the history and theory of the documentary genre.
