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    Documentary Screens by Beattie, Keith;

    Nonfiction Film and Television

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 2004
    • Publisher Red Globe Press
    • Date of Publication 16 April 2004
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9780333741177
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages276 pages
    • Size 216x138x16 mm
    • Weight 380 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    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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    Long description:

    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:

    Acknowledgements
    Introduction
    'Believe Me, I'm of the World': Documentary Representation
    Men with Movie Cameras: Flaherty and Grierson
    Constructing and Contesting Otherness: Ethnographic Film
    Decolonizing the Image: Aboriginal Documentary Productions
    The Truth of the Matter: Cinema Verite and Direct Cinema
    The Camera I: Autobiographical Documentary
    Finding and Keeping: Compilation Documentary
    The Fact/Fiction Divide: Drama-Documentary and Documentary Drama
    The Evening Report: Television Documentary Journalism
    Up Close and Personal: Popular Factual Entertainment
    The Burning Question: The Future of Documentary
    Conclusion
    Screenings and Additional Resources
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index.

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