Screening Nature and Nation: The Environmental Documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939-1974 by Michael D. Clemens offers a thorough study of key NFB films and their relationship to environmentalism in Canada.
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Transmedia Marketing: From Film and TV to Games and Digital Media by Anne Zeiser is a practical guide for film and TV promotion.
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Keep ReadingOn Jean Bruce and Gerda Cammaer’s monograph Forbidden Love: A Queer Film Classic about Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman's 1992 doc.
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Keep ReadingThis is yet another coffee table book foray into the minds of some key documentary-makers like D.A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles and Ken Burns, and several more not represented by separate chapters, such
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