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About this book
Documentary productions encompass remarkable representations of surprising realities. How do documentaries achieve their ends? What types of documentaries are there? What factors are implicated in their production? Such questions animate this engaging study. Documentary Screens is a comprehensive and critical study of the formal features and histories of central categories of documentary film and television. Among the categories examined are autobiographical, indigenous and ethnographic documentary, compilation films, direct cinema and cinema verite and television documentary journalism. The book also considers recent so-called popular factual entertainment and the future of documentary film, television and new media. This provocative and accessible analysis situates wide-ranging examples from each category within the larger material forces which impact on documentary form and content. The important connection between form, content and context explored in the book constitutes a new and lively 'documentary studies' approach to documentary representation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Titlepage
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Believe Me, I’m of theWorld’: Documentary Representation
- 2 Men with Movie Cameras: Flaherty and Grierson
- 3 Constructing and Contesting Otherness: Ethnographic Film
- 4 Decolonizing the Image: Aboriginal Documentary Productions
- 5 The Truth of the Matter: Cinéma Vérité and Direct Cinema
- 6 The Camera I: Autobiographical Documentary
- 7 Finding and Keeping: Compilation Documentary
- 8 The Fact/Fiction Divide: Drama-Documentary and Documentary Drama
- 9 The Evening Report: Television Documentary Journalism
- 10 Up Close and Personal: Popular Factual Entertainment
- 11 The Burning Question: The Future of Documentary
- Conclusion
- Appendix Screenings and Additional Resources
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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