
Stories Make the World
Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary
- 292 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make the World, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of how documentary filmmakers and other storytellers come to understand their subjects and cast light on the world through their art. Drawing on the author's decades of experience behind the scenes of television and film documentaries, this is an indispensable account of the principles and paradoxes that attend the quest to represent reality truthfully.
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Table of contents
- Stories Make the World
- Contents
- Prologue to the Second Edition
- Introduction
- Part One. Storytellers
- Pedro Azabache
- Eduardo Calderón
- Erik H. Erikson
- Ginetta Sagan
- Hannah Arendt
- Part Two. Beginnings and Ends
- Achilles’ Shield
- Fire in the Cave
- Theater of History
- Part Three. The Natural World
- On the Interstellarnet
- The View from the Sierra Madre
- Upstream, Downstream
- Part Four. The Human World
- Imagining Freedom
- Land of Plenty
- Fields of Centers
- Through the Wall
- Part Five. Planet of the Humans
- Baked Alaska
- Sounds of a Changing Planet
- Rim of the World
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Filmography: Stephen Most
- Notes and Sources
- Index