| LC control no. | gf2011026205 |
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| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Documentary films |
| Variant(s) | Documentaries, Motion picture Factual films Motion picture documentaries |
| See also | Nonfiction films Actualities (Motion pictures) |
| Found in | Moving image genre-form guide online, April 27, 2007: (documentary: Grounded in some aspect of real life, documentaries may vary from a very deliberate account of facts to an extremely interpretive rendering of a subject, advocating a particular viewpoint on a political, social, or historical issue) Yee, M.M. Moving image materials, 1988 (Documentaries and factual works. Use for films and programs which depict actual persons and/or events. Exclude frank historical re-creations, but do not attempt to judge the "truth" of the depiction in a film purporting to be factual or documentary in character) Lopez, D. Films by genre, c1993: p. 77 (Documentary (Docu, Documentary Film, Factual Film, Non-Fiction Film, Realist Film); the term documentary is applied to and includes a vast array of different types of nonfiction or semifictional films; it stretches from the objective presentation of factual material to the subjective use of film for propaganda purposes) |
| Invalid LCCN | sh2007025014 |
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