Documentary in Wales : cultures and practices / edited by Dafydd Sills-Jones and Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editorial introduction: Documentary in Wales / Dafydd Sills-Jones & Elin Haf Gruffudd Jones -- 'Anorac' : locating 'feature doc' in the documentary ecology of Cymru-Wales / Dafydd Sills-Jones -- Representing sociolinguistic reality in a minoritized language: S4C, documentary and 'translanguaging' / Elin Haf Gruffudd Jones -- Making history : the story of Wales - Representing the ation / John Geraint -- Arts for all? : S4C, arts documentaries, and the notion of quality / Geraint Ellis -- Embracing complexity : Aberfan: the fight for justice / Iwan England -- Rethinking documentary: Wales and the British documentary tradition / Colin Thomas -- Creative documentary? : Csikszentmihalyi's systems model and documentary production in Wales / Nia Dryhurst -- Activism and online documentary: the life and death of Sianel62 / Greg Bevan -- Capturing youth voices : participatory 'social network documentary' production and political engagement in a small nation / Helen Davies & Merris Griffiths -- Authorship, representation and ethics : collaborative filmmaking with rural communities in Wales / Anne Marie Carty -- Interactive, immersive and digital documentary practice in Wales: a work in progress / Jo Wright.

"Contemporary Wales's emergence from the British context is relatively recent, marked by the appointment of Cardiff as Wales' capital in 1955, the launch of a Welsh language broadcaster Sianel 4 Cymru (S4C) in 1982, and the founding of Y Senedd/National Assembly for Wales in 1999. Documentary in Wales is conditioned by this historical context, with most of Wales' documentary output produced by the regionalized remnants of Britain's state/commercial broadcasting duopoly: BBC Cymru/Wales, HTV Wales and Sianel 4 Cymru (S4C). The documentary culture of Wales is also modulated by the enriching, but sometimes uneasy, question of the relationship between both national languages (Cymraeg and English). Wales has not been immune to recent international developments that have brought increased access to production technologies and internet distribution. In general, these developments have weakened the power of documentary's traditional gatekeepers, leading to the emergence of new developments in theatrical exhibition, transnational co-production, short form, user-generated content, grass roots activism, academic research and interactive futures. Despite these developments, the form and substance of Welsh documentary are still closely linked to traditional British documentary values of authority, objectivity and factual discourse. However, the Welsh context has a specific and complex effect on the way documentary development plays out, profoundly affecting the way documentary presents reality within Wales, connects with other parts of the world and projects notions of Welshness to the outer world"-- Provided by publisher.