New challenges for documentary.
Contributor(s): Rosenthal, Alan | Corner, John
Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2005Edition: 2nd ed. / edited by Alan Rosenthal and John CornerDescription: xi, 507 p. ; 24 cm001: BDZ0006204578ISBN: 9780719068997 (pbk.) :; 9780719068980 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Documentary films | Documentary television programs | Media Studies | Museology & heritage studies | Film history, theory & criticism | Film production: technical & background skills | Media, entertainment, information & communication industries | Films, cinema | Documentary filmsDDC classification: 070.18 LOC classification: PN1995.9.D6| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The first edition of New Challenges for Documentaryprovided a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film andtelevision and fresh encouragement for critical thinking aboutpractice. This second edition brings together many new contributions,both from academics and filmmakers, reflecting shifts both indocumentary production itself, and in ways of discussing it.
Once again, the emphasis has been on clear and provocative writing,sympathetic to the practical challenges of documentary filmmaking butmaking connections with a range of work in media and communicationsanalysis.
With its wide range of contributors and the international scope ofits agenda, New Challenges for Documentary will be essentialreading for general filmmakers and documentary students both ofacademic and practical inclinations.
Previous ed.: Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1988.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: Theories and forms: Documentary asgenre -- Part Two: The inside view: Producers anddirectors -- Part Three: Issues of ethics and aesthetics -- Part Four: Changing contexts in television -- Part Five: Versions of history -- Part Six: Docudrama: Border disputes
The first edition provided a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television and fresh encouragement for critical thinking about practice. This second edition brings together many new contributions, reflecting shifts both in documentary production itself, and in ways of discussing it. The first edition of New Challenges for Documentary provided amajor stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television andfresh encouragement for critical thinking about practice. This secondedition brings together many new contributions, both from academics andfilmmakers, reflecting shifts both in documentary production itself,and in ways of discussing it.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations (p. viii)
- Acknowledgements (p. ix)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Part I Theories and Forms: Documentary as Genre
- 1 The Voice of Documentary (p. 17)
- 2 The Image Mirrored: Reflexivity and the Documentary Film (p. 34)
- 3 Television, Documentary and the Category of the Aesthetic (p. 48)
- 4 Mirrors Without Memories: Truth, History, and the New Documentary (p. 59)
- Part II The Inside View: Producers and Directors
- 5 The Canadian Film Board Unit B (p. 79)
- 6 'History is the Theme of All My Films': An Interview with Emile de Antonio (p. 94)
- 7 The War Game: An Interview with Peter Watkins (p. 110)
- 8 New Agendas in Black Filmmaking: An Interview with Marlon Riggs (p. 121)
- 9 Jumping Off the Cliff: A Conversation with Dennis O'Rourke (p. 128)
- 10 The Politics of Documentary: A Symposium (p. 150)
- 11 Staying Alive (p. 167)
- Part III Issues of Ethics and Aesthetics
- 12 Ethics (p. 181)
- 13 Ultimately We Are All Outsiders: The Ethics of Documentary Filming (p. 194)
- 14 The Ethics of Image Making; or, "They're Going to Put Me in the Movies. They're Going to Make a Big Star Out of Me ..." (p. 209)
- 15 Word Is Out and Gay U.S.A. (p. 220)
- 16 Building a Mock-Documentary Schema (p. 230)
- 17 Sounds Real: Music and Documentary (p. 242)
- 18 Bowling for Columbine: A Review (p. 253)
- Part IV Changing Contexts in Television
- 19 The McCarthy "See It Now" Broadcast (p. 267)
- 20 An Independent with the Networks (p. 280)
- 21 New Boy: An Independent with Israel TV (p. 293)
- 22 Reflections on An American Family (p. 307)
- 23 American High: Documentary as Episodic Television (p. 327)
- 24 Documentary and Truth on Television: The Crisis of 1999 (p. 342)
- Part V Versions of History
- 25 History on the Public Screen, I (p. 363)
- 26 History on the Public Screen, II (p. 372)
- 27 Historical Analysis, Stage One: Content, Production, and Reception (p. 382)
- 28 Narration, Invention, and History (p. 397)
- 29 Against the Ivory Tower: An Apologia for "Popular" Historical Documentaries (p. 409)
- 30 The Event: Archive and Imagination (p. 419)
- Part VI Docudrama: Border Disputes
- 31 Dramadoc/Docudrama: The Law and Regulation (p. 435)
- 32 US Docudrama and "Movie of the Week" (p. 453)
- 33 Death of a Princess: The Politics of Passion, an Interview with Antony Thomas (p. 463)
- 34 Dramatised Documentary (p. 475)
- 35 Where Are We Going, and How and Why? (p. 485)
- Index (p. 493)
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