Rethinking Documentary
New Perspectives And Practices
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2008
372 pages
978-0-335-23627-5 (ISBN)
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In response to these rapid developments, this book rethinks the notion of documentary, in terms of theory, practice and object/s of study.
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Thomas Austin | Wilma de Jong
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Content
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Content Page
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Rethinking documentary
- PART 1: Critical Perspectives on Documentary Forms and Concepts
- Chapter 1: Documentary Studies: Dimensions of transition and continuity
- Chapter 2: The Question of Evidence, the Power of Rhetoric and Documentary Film
- Chapter 3: First-person Films: Some theses on self-inscription
- Chapter 4: ' .To Leave the Confinements of His Humanness': Authorial voice, death and constructions of nature inWerner Herzog's Grizzly Man
- Chapter 5: Collective Subjectivity in The Children of Golzow vs. Alienation in 'Western' Interview Documentary
- Chapter 6: Documentary as Critical and Creative Research
- Chapter 7: Reframing Ethnographic Film
- Chapter 8: Transcendental Realism in Documentary
- Chapter 9: Filming 'the Invisible'
- Part II: The Changing Faces of Documentary Production
- Chapter 10: Developing and Producing a Feature Documentary: The case of Deep Water
- Chapter 11: Filmmakers and Their Subjects
- Chapter 12: From Eight-Man Crew to One-Woman Band: My life in television documentary
- Chapter 13: 'You Want to Know That, This Is Real, This Is What Happened': An interview with John Smithson
- Chapter 14: 'The Idea That There's a ''Truth'' That You Discover Is Like Chasing the End of a Rainbow': An interview with Ralph Lee
- Chapter 15: Rice N Peas: Alternative, independent and provocative
- Chapter 16: 'The Importance of Memory': An interview with Ai Xiaoming
- Part III: Contemporary Documentary: Borders, Neighbours and Disputed Territories
- Chapter 17: Drama-documentary, Ethics and Notions of Performance: The 'Flight 93' Films
- Chapter 18: Mockumentary: A call to play
- Chapter 19: Documentary Modes of Engagement
- Chapter 20: 'Ask the Fastidious Woman from Surbiton to Hand-wash the Underpants of the Aging Oldham Skinhead .' Why not Wife Swap?
- Chapter 21: Simulating the Public Sphere
- Chapter 22: TheWork ofWork Reality TV and the negotiation of neo-liberal labour in The Apprentice
- Part IV: Digital and Online Documentaries: Opportunities and Limitations
- Chapter 23: Documentary Viewing Platforms
- Chapter 24: Online Documentary
- Chapter 25: Public domains: Engaging Iraq through experimental documentary digitalities
- Chapter 26: Documentary on YouTube: The failure of the direct cinema of the slogan
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
