Rethinking documentary : new perspectives, new practices /
edited by Thomas Austin and Wilma de Jong.
- x, 358 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-334) and index.
Cover -- Copyright Page -- TOC$Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Rethinking documentary -- Part 1: Critical Perspectives on Documentary Forms and Concepts -- CH$Chapter 1: Documentary Studies -- CH$Chapter 2: The Question of Evidence, the Power of Rhetoric and Documentary Film -- CH$Chapter 3: First-person Films -- CH$Chapter 4: ' ...To Leave the Confinements of His Humanness' -- CH$Chapter 5: Collective Subjectivity in The Children of Golzow vs. Alienation in 'Western' Interview Documentary -- CH$Chapter 6: Documentary as Critical and Creative Research -- CH$Chapter 7: Reframing Ethnographic Film -- CH$Chapter 8: Transcendental Realism in Documentary -- CH$Chapter 9: Filming 'the Invisible' -- Part II: The Changing Faces of Documentary Production -- CH$Chapter 10: Developing and Producing a Feature Documentary -- CH$Chapter 11: Filmmakers and Their Subjects -- CH$Chapter 12: From Eight-Man Crew to One-Woman Band -- CH$Chapter 13: 'You Want to Know That, This Is Real, This Is What Happened' -- CH$Chapter 14: 'The Idea That There's a ''Truth'' That You Discover Is Like Chasing the End of a Rainbow' -- CH$Chapter 15: Rice N Peas -- CH$Chapter 16: 'The Importance of Memory' -- Part III: Contemporary Documentary -- CH$Chapter 17: Drama-documentary, Ethics and Notions of Performance -- CH$Chapter 18: Mockumentary -- CH$Chapter 19: Documentary Modes of Engagement -- CH$Chapter 20: 'Ask the Fastidious Woman from Surbiton to Hand-wash the Underpants of the Aging Oldham Skinhead ...' Why not Wife Swap? -- CH$Chapter 21: Simulating the Public Sphere -- CH$Chapter 22: TheWork of Work -- Part IV: Digital and Online Documentaries -- CH$Chapter 23: Documentary Viewing Platforms -- CH$Chapter 24: Online Documentary -- CH$Chapter 25: Public domains -- CH$Chapter 26: Documentary on YouTube -- Bibliography -- IDX$Index.
Because of the huge boom in documentary-making, there's been a similar growth in the number of courses in documentary studies. This book brings together some of the leading scholars and practitioners in this area to provide a textbook and research tool.