Designed specifically for undergraduates on film theory courses, this history of the documentary film has been revised and updated to take into account the major films and film trends of the 1980s and 1990s. Emphasis is placed on documentary film-making in the former Soviet Union.
This volume is an abridgement of Erik Barnouw's three-volume History of Broadcasting in the United States . The paperback edition was first published in 1976 and a second edition in 1982. Much has happened in US television since then and the additions in this volume take account of those changes.