Documentary Storytelling
eBook - ePub

Documentary Storytelling

Creative Nonfiction on Screen

  1. 374 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Documentary Storytelling

Creative Nonfiction on Screen

About this book

For nearly two decades, Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the key ingredient for success in the global documentary marketplace: storytelling.

As this revised, updated fifth edition makes clear, nonfiction storytelling is not limited to character-driven journeys, but instead encompasses the diverse ways in which today's top documentarians reach audiences with content that is creative, original, and often inspirational, all without sacrificing the integrity that gives documentary its power. This book is filled with practical advice for writers, producers, directors, editors, cinematographers, and others committed to reality-based filmmaking that seeks to reach audiences, raise awareness, address social issues, illuminate the human condition, and even entertain.

In this new edition, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author Sheila Curran Bernard offers:

  • a closer look at the way ethical nonfiction filmmakers take creative, authorial leaps while also remaining transparent with audiences;
  • new tools for understanding how documentaries are structured, how they may rearrange time for storytelling effect, and how a simple narrative throughline can convey complexity without being a conventional "hero's journey";
  • new conversations with filmmakers and educators including Dawn Porter, Madison Hamburg, Tracy Heather Strain, June Cross, Heidi Gronauer, and Julie Casper Roth, and another look at conversations with Stanley Nelson and Orlando von Einsiedel.

Please visit the book's website, available at www.documentarystorytelling.com, for further information, related articles, and more.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781032267319
eBook ISBN
9781000588637

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Endorsements I Page
  3. Endorsements II Page
  4. Half-Title Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication Page
  8. Contents
  9. Preface to the Fifth Edition
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Sources and Notes
  12. About the Author
  13. CHAPTER 1 Introduction
  14. PART I • Understanding Story
  15. PART II • Working with Story
  16. PART III • Talking about Story
  17. Index