Documentary films
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Documentary films
- When subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical and/or form subdivisions, this heading is used for works about documentary films.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088115
- info:lc/authorities/sh85088115
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85088115#concept
Instance Of
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Variants
- Documentaries, Motion picture
- Documentary videos
- Factual films
- Motion picture documentaries
- Moving-pictures, Documentary
Use For
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Related Terms
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
- Moving-pictures, Documentary
Sources
- found: Britannica Micro.
- found: Beaver, F. Dict. of film terms, 1983.
- found: Katz, E. Film encyc., 1979.
- found: LC database, Sept. 24, 1987 (documentary film(s); nonfiction film; documentary; documentaries)
- found: 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)
- found: 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)
- found: LC database, May 14, 2002 (title: motion picture documentaries)
General Notes
- When subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical and/or form subdivisions, this heading is used for works about documentary films.
Change Notes
- 2005-08-25: new
- 2010-01-07: revised
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