Description
Book SynopsisProvides a guide and an introduction to television documentary. It examines questions such as "What is documentary?", and looks at the ways in which documentaries are produced and how they are received.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
A note on the availability of recordings
Introduction
Part I: Documentary Debates
1. Mapping out the terrain: What is documentary?
2. How real can you get?: Realism and documentary
Part II: The Documentary Text
3. Shaping the real: Modes of documentary
4. Tackling the text: Documentary analyses
Part III: Fact, Fiction and Drama
5. Telling a story: Fact, fiction and documentary
6. Making a drama out of a crisis: The drama-documentary and related forms
Part IV: Documentary Production and Reception
7. Just do it our way!: Institutional control and production economics
8. How do they do it?: Aspects of documentary production
9. Is there anyone out there?: Audiences for documentary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
