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Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 3rd edDescription: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253026903
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 070.18
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Contents:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 How Can We Define Documentary Film? -- 2 Why Are Ethical Issues Central to Documentary Filmmaking? -- 3 What Gives Documentaries a Voice of Their Own? -- 4 What Makes Documentaries Engaging and Persuasive? -- 5 How Did Documentary Filmmaking Get Started? -- 6 How Can We Differentiate among Documentary Models and Modes? What Are the Poetic, Expository, and Reflexive Modes? -- 7 How Can We Describe the Observational, Participatory, and Performative Modes of Documentary Film? -- 8 How Have Documentaries Addressed Social and Political Issues? -- 9 How Can We Write Effectively about Documentary? -- 10 I Want to Make a Documentary. Where Do I Start? -- APPENDIX: SAMPLE FILM PROJECT PROPOSAL -- NOTES ON SOURCE MATERIAL -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Each chapter takes up a discrete question, from "How did documentary filmmaking get started?to "Why are ethical issues central to documentary filmmaking?Here Nichols has fully rewritten each chapter for greater clarity and ease of use, including revised discussions of earlier films and new commentary on dozens of recent films from The Cove to The Act of Killing and from Gasland to Restrepo.
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Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 How Can We Define Documentary Film? -- 2 Why Are Ethical Issues Central to Documentary Filmmaking? -- 3 What Gives Documentaries a Voice of Their Own? -- 4 What Makes Documentaries Engaging and Persuasive? -- 5 How Did Documentary Filmmaking Get Started? -- 6 How Can We Differentiate among Documentary Models and Modes? What Are the Poetic, Expository, and Reflexive Modes? -- 7 How Can We Describe the Observational, Participatory, and Performative Modes of Documentary Film? -- 8 How Have Documentaries Addressed Social and Political Issues? -- 9 How Can We Write Effectively about Documentary? -- 10 I Want to Make a Documentary. Where Do I Start? -- APPENDIX: SAMPLE FILM PROJECT PROPOSAL -- NOTES ON SOURCE MATERIAL -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Each chapter takes up a discrete question, from "How did documentary filmmaking get started?to "Why are ethical issues central to documentary filmmaking?Here Nichols has fully rewritten each chapter for greater clarity and ease of use, including revised discussions of earlier films and new commentary on dozens of recent films from The Cove to The Act of Killing and from Gasland to Restrepo.

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