Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video (Contemporary Film and Television Series) [Paperback]

Barry Keith Grant (Editor), Jeannette Sloniowski (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0814326390 | ISBN-13: 978-0814326398 | Publication Date: July 1998

An examination of the developments in the history of documentary fimmmaking.

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"Documenting the Documentary" features essays by 27 film scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender, and representation—but always in terms of how they arise out of or are involved in the reading of specific documentaries as particular textual constructions. By closely reading documentaries as rich visual works, this anthology fills a void in the critical writing on documentaries, which tends to privilege production over aesthetic pleasure. As we increasingly perceive and comprehend the world through visual media , understanding the textual strategies by which individual documentaries are organized has become critically important. "Documenting the Documentary" offers clear, serious, and insightful analyses of documentary films, and is a welcome balance between theory and criticism, abstract conceptualization and concrete analysis.

Product Details

• Paperback: 488 pages
• Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr (July 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814326390
• ISBN-13: 978-0814326398
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)