{"product_id":"contemporary-documentary-9781138849549","title":"Contemporary Documentary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContemporary Documentary\u003c\/em\u003e offers a rich survey of the rapidly expanding landscape of documentary film, television, video, and new media. The collection of original essays addresses the emerging forms, popular genres, and innovative approaches of the digital era. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe anthology highlights geographically and thematically diverse examples of documentaries that have expanded the scope and impact of non-fiction cinema and captured the attention of global audiences over the past three decades. It also explores the experience of documentary today, with its changing dynamics of production, collaboration, distribution, and exhibition, and its renewed political and cultural relevance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe twelve chapters - featuring engaging case studies and written from a wide range of perspectives including film theory, social theory, ethics, new media, and experience design - invite students to think critically about documentary as a vibrant field, unrestricted in its ima\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The expanded, inter-generic spaces of 'documentary' encompass a diverse aesthetics and new modes of viewing and involvement. The contributors here connect with international innovation and future possibilities from a firm base in established scholarship, continuing the renewal of critical thinking that is now required.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Corner, Professor in Communication Studies, University of Leeds, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A lively blend of emerging scholars and the usual suspects, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Documentary\u003c\/i\u003e takes on the long and growing list of sub-genres that will either expand or explode what we have so comfortably referred to as ‘documentary’. The best of its arguments add new depth to cinema’s adventures with reality.\"\u003cstrong\u003eSeth Feldman, Professor of Film and Television Studies, York University, Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bottom line: this should be required reading for those interested in documentary film in all its manifestations. Summing Up: Essential. All readers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eL. M. Anderst, Queensborough Community College - CUNY in CHOICE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword \u003ci\u003eBill Nichols \u003c\/i\u003eIntroduction: Situating Contemporary Documentary \u003ci\u003eSelmin Kara and Daniel Marcus \u003c\/i\u003ePART I: FORMS, GENRES, INNOVATIONS 1. Lying to Be Real: The Aesthetics of Ambiguity in Docufictions \u003ci\u003eOhad Landesman 2. \u003c\/i\u003eThe Mockumentary \u003cem\u003eCraig Hight \u003c\/em\u003e3.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eAnimated Documentary \u003ci\u003eAnnabelle Honess Roe 4. \u003c\/i\u003eProducing the Crowdsourced Documentary: The Implications of Storytelling and Technology \u003ci\u003eHeather McIntosh 5. \u003c\/i\u003eDesigned Experience in Interactive Documentaries \u003ci\u003eSiobhan O’Flynn 6. \u003c\/i\u003eIndigenous Documentary Media \u003ci\u003ePamela Wilson \u003c\/i\u003ePART II: DOCUMENTARY IN NEW CONTEXTS 7. \u003ci\u003eTrue Life\u003c\/i\u003e: The Voice of Television Documentary \u003cem\u003eLaurie Ouellette\u003c\/em\u003e 8. Interrogating the Media: Errol Morris in the Information Age \u003cem\u003eKris Fallon\u003c\/em\u003e 9.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eDocumentary and the Survival of the Film Auteur: Agnès Varda, Werner Herzog, and Spike Lee \u003cem\u003eHelen Hughes \u003c\/em\u003e10.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eThe Ethics of Appropriation: \"Misusing\" the Found Document in \u003ci\u003eSuitcase of Love and Shame\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Film Unfinished Jaimie Baron\u003c\/em\u003e 11. Documentary, Multi-Platform Production, and Cosmopolitan Dialogues \u003cem\u003eIb Bondebjerg\u003c\/em\u003e 12.Documentary and Video Activism \u003ci\u003eDaniel Marcus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51535115583831,"sku":"9781138849549","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138849549.jpg?v=1755859207","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contemporary-documentary-9781138849549","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}