ISBN:
9781844573417
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9781844573424
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 400 Seiten
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Illustrationen
DDC:
070.1/8
Keywords:
Documentary films History and criticism
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Documentary films Social aspects
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Dokumentarfilm
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Dokumentarfilm
Abstract:
"Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never been more popular than it is today. Edited by one of the leading British authorities in the field, 'The Documentary Film Book' is an essential guide to current thinking on documentary film. In a series of fascinating essays, key international experts discuss the theory of documentary, outline current understandings of its history (from pre-Flaherty to the post-Griersonian world of digital 'i-Docs'), survey documentary production (from Africa to Europe, and from the Americas to Asia), consider documentaries by marginalised minority communities, and assess its contribution to other disciplines and arts. Brought together here in one volume, these scholars offer compelling evidence as to why, over the last few decades, documentary has come to the centre of screen studies."--Page 4 of cover
Note:
Foreword: Why Documentaries MatterIntroduction: The Filmed Documentary. PART I: DOCUMENTARY VALUES. The Question of Evidence, the Power of Rhetoric and Documentary Film
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'The Performance Documentary': The Performing Film-Maker, the Acting Subject
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CGI and the End of Photography as Evidence
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Drawn From Life: The Animated Documentary
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Dramadoc? Docudrama? The Limits and Protocols of a Televisual Form
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Ambiguous Audiences
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Life As Narrativised
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The Dance of Documentary Ethics
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Deaths, Transfigurations and the Future
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John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement
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Challenges For Change: Canada's National Film Board
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Grierson's Legacies: Australia and New Zealand
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New Deal Documentary and the North Atlantic Welfare State
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The Triumph of Observationalism: Direct Cinema in the USA
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The Radical Tradition in Documentary Film-making, 1920s-50s
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Le Groupe des trente: The Poetic Tradition
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Cinéma Vérité: Vertov Revisited
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Beyond Sobriety: Documentary Diversions
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Africa N.
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Images From the South: Contemporary Documentary in Argentina and Brazil
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'Roadblock' Films, 'Children's Resistance' Films and 'Blood Relations' Films: Israeli and Palestinian Documentary Post-Intifada
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Sacred, Mundane and Absurd Revelations of the Everyday ; Poetic Vérité in the Eastern European Tradition
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Feminist Documentaries: Finding, Seeing and Using Them
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Pioneers of Black Documentary Film
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LGTBs' Documentary Identity
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Docusoaps: The Ordinary Voice as Popular Entertainment
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Reality TV: A Sign of the Times?
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Science, Society and Documentary
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History Documentaries for Television
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Music, Documentary, Music Documentary
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Art, Documentary as Art
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'This Great Mapping of Ourselves': New Documentary Forms Online
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New Platforms for 'Docmedia': 'Varient of a Manifesto'
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Afterword: The Unchanging Question
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