The documentary film book / edited by Brian Winston.
This major new collection, edited by the leading British authority in the field, provides a broad and thorough introduction to documentary cinema. Contributions from leading international scholars address the history and nature of documentary, debates about truth and ethics, and documentary cinema i...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2013. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Why documentaries matter / Nick Fraser
- Introduction : The filmed documentary / Brian Winston
- Part 1. Documentary values : The question of evidence, the power of rhetoric and documentary film / Bill Nichols
- 'I'll believe it when I trust the source' : documentary images and visual evidence / Carl Plantinga
- The performing film-maker and the acting subject / Stella Bruzzi
- On truth, objectivity and partisanship : the case of Michael Moore / Douglas Kellner
- CGI and the end of photography as evidence / Taylor Downing
- Drawn from life : the animated documentary / Andy Glynne
- Dramadoc? docudrama? : the limits and protocols of a televisual form / Derek Paget
- Ambiguous audiences / Annette Hill
- Life as narrativised / Brian Winston
- 'The dance of documentary ethics' / Pratap Rughani
- Deaths, transfigurations and the future / John Corner.
- Part 2. Documentary paradigms : Problems in historiography : the documentary tradition before Nanook of the North / Charles Musser
- John Grierson and the documentary film movement / Ian Aitken
- Challenges for change : Canada's National Film Board / Thomas Waugh and Ezra Winton
- Grierson's legacies : Australia and New Zealand / Deane Williams
- New Deal documentary and the North Atlantic welfare state / Zoë Druick and Jonathan Kahana
- The triumph of observationalism : direct cinema in the USA / Dave Saunders
- Soviet and Russian documentary: from Vertov to Sokurov / Ian Christie
- The radical tradition in documentary film-making, 1920s-50s / Bert Hogenkamp
- Le groupe des Trente : the poetic tradition / Elena Von Kassel Siambani
- Cinéma vérité : Vertov revisited / Geneviève Van Cauwenberge
- Beyond sobriety : documentary diversions / Craig Hight.
- Part 3. Documentary horizons : Eastwards / Abé Mark Nornes
- Mapping Africa / N. Frank Ukadike
- Images from the south : contemporary documentary in Argentina and Brazil / Ana Amado and Maria Dora Mourão
- 'Roadblock' films, 'children's resistance' films and 'blood relations' films : Israeli and Palestinian documentary post-Intifada II / Raya Morag
- Sacred, mundane and absurd revelations of the everyday : poetic vérité in the Eastern European tradition / Susanna Helke.
- Part 4. Documentary voices : First-person political / Alisa Lebow
- Feminist documentaries : finding, seeing and using them / Julia Lesage
- Pioneers of Black documentary film / Pearl Bowser
- Documentary identity / Christopher Pullen
- Docusoaps : the ordinary voice as popular entertainment / Richard Kilborn
- Reality TV : a sign of the times? / Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn.
- Part 5. Documentary disciplines : Anthropology : the evolution of ethnographic film / Paul Henley
- Science, society and documentary / Tim Boon
- History documentaries for television / Ann Gray
- Music, documentary, music documentary / Michael Chanan
- Art, documentary as art / Michael Renov.
- Part 6. Documentary futures : Documentary as open space / Helen de Michiel and Patricia R. Zimmermann
- 'This great mapping of ourselves' : new documentary forms online / John Dovey and Mandy Rose
- New platforms for docmedia : 'varient of a manifesto' / Peter Wintonick
- Afterword: 'What must we film now?' / Brian Winston.