Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A lively introduction to a subject which has attracted increasing interest in the last few years.. A wide-ranging and carefully constructed account. Likely to be adopted on many courses (both foundational level and advanced) which include the study of documentary as part of a wider Media Studies agenda.. Written in a highly accessible manner, it has the edge on rival publications on the subject, which have often proved to difficult for an undergraduate readership.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements
• A note on the availability of recordings Introduction
• Part I Documentary Debates
• 1 Mapping out the terrain: What is documentary?
• 2 How real can you get?: Realism and documentary
• Part II The Documentary Text
• 3 Shaping the real: Modes of documentary
• 4 Tackling the text: Documentary analyses
• Part III Fact, Fiction and Drama
• 5 Telling a story: Fact, fiction and documentary
• 6 Making a drama out of a crisis: The drama-documentary and related forms
• Part IV Documentary Production and Reception
• 7 Just do it our way!: Institutional control and production economics
• 8 How do they do it?: Aspects of documentary production
• 9 Is there anyone out there?: Audiences for documentary Notes Bibliography