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Rethinking documentary : new perspectives, new practices / edited by Thomas Austin and Wilma de Jong

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Maidenhead, Berkshire, England ; New York : Open University Press/McGraw Hill Education, 2008Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 358 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780335221912 (pb)
  • 0335221912 (pb)
  • 9780335221929 (hb)
  • 0335221920 (hb)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Rethinking documentary.DDC classification:
  • 070.1 22
LOC classification:
  • P96.D62 R48 2008
Contents:
Introduction: Rethinking documentary -- Part 1: Critical Perspectives on Documentary Forms and Concepts -- Chapter 1: Documentary Studies -- Chapter 2: The Question of Evidence, the Power of Rhetoric and Documentary Film -- Chapter 3: First-person Films -- Chapter 4: ' ...To Leave the Confinements of His Humanness' -- Chapter 5: Collective Subjectivity in The Children of Golzow vs. Alienation in 'Western' Interview Documentary -- Chapter 6: Documentary as Critical and Creative Research -- Chapter 7: Reframing Ethnographic Film -- Chapter 8: Transcendental Realism in Documentary -- Chapter 9: Filming 'the Invisible' -- Part II: The Changing Faces of Documentary Production -- Chapter 10: Developing and Producing a Feature Documentary -- Chapter 11: Filmmakers and Their Subjects -- Chapter 12: From Eight-Man Crew to One-Woman Band -- Chapter 13: 'You Want to Know That, This Is Real, This Is What Happened' -- Chapter 14: 'The Idea That There's a ''Truth'' That You Discover Is Like Chasing the End of a Rainbow' -- Chapter 15: Rice N Peas -- Chapter 16: 'The Importance of Memory' -- Part III: Contemporary Documentary -- Chapter 17: Drama-documentary, Ethics and Notions of Performance -- Chapter 18: Mockumentary -- Chapter 19: Documentary Modes of Engagement -- Chapter 20: 'Ask the Fastidious Woman from Surbiton to Hand-wash the Underpants of the Aging Oldham Skinhead ...' Why not Wife Swap? -- Chapter 21: Simulating the Public Sphere -- Chapter 22: The Work of Work -- Part IV: Digital and Online Documentaries -- Chapter 23: Documentary Viewing Platforms -- Chapter 24: Online Documentary -- Chapter 25: Public domains -- Chapter 26: Documentary on YouTube
Summary: Because of the huge boom in documentary making there's been a similar growth in the number of courses in documentary studies. This book brings together some of the leading scholars and practitioners in this area to provide a textbook and research tool
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-334) and index

Introduction: Rethinking documentary -- Part 1: Critical Perspectives on Documentary Forms and Concepts -- Chapter 1: Documentary Studies -- Chapter 2: The Question of Evidence, the Power of Rhetoric and Documentary Film -- Chapter 3: First-person Films -- Chapter 4: ' ...To Leave the Confinements of His Humanness' -- Chapter 5: Collective Subjectivity in The Children of Golzow vs. Alienation in 'Western' Interview Documentary -- Chapter 6: Documentary as Critical and Creative Research -- Chapter 7: Reframing Ethnographic Film -- Chapter 8: Transcendental Realism in Documentary -- Chapter 9: Filming 'the Invisible' -- Part II: The Changing Faces of Documentary Production -- Chapter 10: Developing and Producing a Feature Documentary -- Chapter 11: Filmmakers and Their Subjects -- Chapter 12: From Eight-Man Crew to One-Woman Band -- Chapter 13: 'You Want to Know That, This Is Real, This Is What Happened' -- Chapter 14: 'The Idea That There's a ''Truth'' That You Discover Is Like Chasing the End of a Rainbow' -- Chapter 15: Rice N Peas -- Chapter 16: 'The Importance of Memory' -- Part III: Contemporary Documentary -- Chapter 17: Drama-documentary, Ethics and Notions of Performance -- Chapter 18: Mockumentary -- Chapter 19: Documentary Modes of Engagement -- Chapter 20: 'Ask the Fastidious Woman from Surbiton to Hand-wash the Underpants of the Aging Oldham Skinhead ...' Why not Wife Swap? -- Chapter 21: Simulating the Public Sphere -- Chapter 22: The Work of Work -- Part IV: Digital and Online Documentaries -- Chapter 23: Documentary Viewing Platforms -- Chapter 24: Online Documentary -- Chapter 25: Public domains -- Chapter 26: Documentary on YouTube

Because of the huge boom in documentary making there's been a similar growth in the number of courses in documentary studies. This book brings together some of the leading scholars and practitioners in this area to provide a textbook and research tool

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