Stories Make the World
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Stories Make the World

Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary

  1. 292 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Stories Make the World

Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary

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

  1. Stories Make the World
  2. Contents
  3. Prologue to the Second Edition
  4. Introduction
  5. Part One. Storytellers
  6. Pedro Azabache
  7. Eduardo Calderón
  8. Erik H. Erikson
  9. Ginetta Sagan
  10. Hannah Arendt
  11. Part Two. Beginnings and Ends
  12. Achilles’ Shield
  13. Fire in the Cave
  14. Theater of History
  15. Part Three. The Natural World
  16. On the Interstellarnet
  17. The View from the Sierra Madre
  18. Upstream, Downstream
  19. Part Four. The Human World
  20. Imagining Freedom
  21. Land of Plenty
  22. Fields of Centers
  23. Through the Wall
  24. Part Five. Planet of the Humans
  25. Baked Alaska
  26. Sounds of a Changing Planet
  27. Rim of the World
  28. Epilogue
  29. Acknowledgments
  30. Selected Filmography: Stephen Most
  31. Notes and Sources
  32. Index