Documentary Screens
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Documentary Screens

Nonfiction Film and Television

  1. 276 pages
  2. English
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Documentary Screens

Nonfiction Film and Television

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About This Book

Documentary productions encompass remarkable representations of surprising realities. How do documentaries achieve their ends? What types of documentaries are there? What factors are implicated in their production? Such questions animate this engaging study. Documentary Screens is a comprehensive and critical study of the formal features and histories of central categories of documentary film and television. Among the categories examined are autobiographical, indigenous and ethnographic documentary, compilation films, direct cinema and cinema verite and television documentary journalism. The book also considers recent so-called popular factual entertainment and the future of documentary film, television and new media. This provocative and accessible analysis situates wide-ranging examples from each category within the larger material forces which impact on documentary form and content. The important connection between form, content and context explored in the book constitutes a new and lively 'documentary studies' approach to documentary representation.

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Publisher
Red Globe Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780230628038
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Titlepage
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 ‘Believe Me, I’m of theWorld’: Documentary Representation
  10. 2 Men with Movie Cameras: Flaherty and Grierson
  11. 3 Constructing and Contesting Otherness: Ethnographic Film
  12. 4 Decolonizing the Image: Aboriginal Documentary Productions
  13. 5 The Truth of the Matter: Cinéma Vérité and Direct Cinema
  14. 6 The Camera I: Autobiographical Documentary
  15. 7 Finding and Keeping: Compilation Documentary
  16. 8 The Fact/Fiction Divide: Drama-Documentary and Documentary Drama
  17. 9 The Evening Report: Television Documentary Journalism
  18. 10 Up Close and Personal: Popular Factual Entertainment
  19. 11 The Burning Question: The Future of Documentary
  20. Conclusion
  21. Appendix Screenings and Additional Resources
  22. Notes
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index