This book examines the recent challenges to the conventions of realist documentary through the lens of war documentary films by Ken Burns, Michael Moore, and Errol Morris. Ricciardelli examines how postcolonial critiques of historicism and the advent of digitization have affected the narrative struc..
This book examines the recent challenges to the conventions of realist documentary through the lens of war documentary films by Ken Burns, Michael Moore, and Errol Morris. Ricciardelli examines how postcolonial critiques of historicism and the advent of digitization have affected the narrative struc..
Contemporary Documentary includes chapters on some of the best known mainstream documentary producers and directors of the twenty first century. It also includes chapters on recent innovations and different ways of studying the genre, including a chapter on crowdsourced films consisting of interview..
What does it mean to be a documentary filmmaker in today’s world? How are new technologies changing documentary filmmaking? What new forms of documentary are emerging?_x005F_x000D_
Recent technological developments have made the making and distribution of documentary films easier and more widespread..
Presents many different approaches to documentary form and style arising from the use of innovative technology. This title features interviews and advice from documentary makers from the UK, USA and Europe. It provides things you need to know to get started with quick-reference listings of funding o..
Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the key ingredient for success in the growing global documentary marketplace: storytelling. This practical guide reveals how today’s top filmmakers bring the tools of narrative cinema to the world of non..
Open Space New Media Documentary examines an emerging and significant area of documentary practice in the twenty-first century: community-based new media documentary projects that move across platforms and utilize participatory modalities...
The essays collected in this book show the important role that political documentary cinema has played in the Latin American region since the 1950s._x005F_x000D_
This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Identities...
Story Money Impact: Funding Media for Social Change by Tracey Friesen is a practical guide for media-makers, funders, and activists who share the common goal of creating an impact with their work. Today, social-issues storytellers are sharpening their craft, while funders with finite resources focus..
This book is a ‘time-capsule’ of documentary film scholarship in the period between 2007 and 2016. Various topics are explored, including trauma studies, documentary sound, form and activism; the rise of independent Chinese documentary; and indigenous representation. It was originally published as a..