Bøger af Nora M. Alter

Deals with the Vietnam War and the fate of protest theatre in the television age. In Part One, this book discusses American examples of the genre, such as MacBird and Viet Rock, as well as representative works from England, Austria, Germany, and France. In Part Two, it investigates several theoretical issues raised by Vietnam protest theatre.

Nora M. Alter reveals the essay film to be a hybrid genre that fuses the categories of feature, art, and documentary film. The essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches; in the process, it fundamentally alters the shape of cinema. The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction locates the genre's origins and follows its transformations.

The intersection between social, historical, and political developments in Germany and the emergence of a nonfiction mode of film production

Having spearheaded the bourgeoning Nouvelle Vague scene in the late 1950s and developed a distinctive style involving still images, Chris Marker stands among the most influential filmmakers of the postwar era. This study includes interviews with the director and investigates his core themes and motivations.