From Grierson to the docu-soap : breaking the boundaries / edited by John Izod and Richard Kilborn with Matthew Hibberd. - vi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Papers (some revised) first presented at a conference held Jan., 1999 at the University of Stirling.

Includes bibliographical references.

Grierson's Legacy. Grierson in Canada: The peak of his creative career? / Stanley Hawes: A 'Grierson man' in Australia / Crossing the cattle drive: Grierson and Australia / John Grierson in South Africa: Misunderstanding apartheid / Poru Ruta: Paul Rotha and the politics of translation / Germaine Dulac and French documentary film-making in the 1930s / Grierson and the public relations industry in Britain / The Changing Culture of British Television. Breaking the boundaries / Trailing documentaries / The docu-soap: A critical assessment / Keeping track of the locals: Governance, television and the community / Fearful and safe: Audience response to British reality programming / 'You either believe it or you don't: ...': Television documentary and pseudo-science / Access, authorship and voice: The emergence of community programming at the BBC / Through the eyes of the Video Nation / Towards defining the digital documentary / Disclaimers, denials and direct address: Captioning in docudrama / Making connections: The European Convention on Human Rights, the Independent Television Commission and the documentary / Documentary and the public sphere / Ian Lockerbie. Ina Bertand. Deane Williams. Keyan G. Tomaselli. Abe Mark Nornes. Sian Reynolds. Jacquie L'Etang -- John Willis. Peter Meech. Richard Kilborn. Gareth Palmer. Annette Hill. Vincent Campbell. Sylvia Harvey. Mandy Rose. Brent MacGregor and Roddy Simpson. Derek Paget. Brian Winston. Michael Chanan. Pt. I. Pt. II.

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Grierson, John, 1898-1972 --Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.


Documentary films--History and criticism--Congresses

PN1995.9.D6 / F76 2000

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