Description
Book Synopsis'New challenges for documentary' provides a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television and a fresh encouragement for critical thinking about practive. This second edition brings together many new contributions both from academics and film-makers.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Theories and forms: Documentary as genre
1. The voice of documentary - Bill Nichols
2. The image mirrored: Reflexivity and the documentary film - Jay Ruby
3. Television, documentary and the category of the aesthetic - John Corner
4. Mirrors without memories: Truth, history and the New Documentary - Linda Williams
Part Two: The inside view: Producers and directors
5. The Canadian Film Board Unit B - D.B. Jones
6. An interview with Emile de Antonio - Gary Crowdus and Dan Georgakas
7. The war game: An interview with Peter Watkins - Alan Rosenthal
8. New agendas in black film-making: An interview with Marlon Riggs - Roy Grundmann
9. Jumping off the cliff: A conversation with Dennis O'Rourke - Tracey Spring
10. The politics of documentary: A symposium - Barbara Zheutlin
11. Staying alive - Alan Rosenthal
Part Three: Issues of ethics and aesthetics
12. Ethics - Brian Winston
13. Ultimately we are all outsiders - Calvin Pryluck
14. The ethics of imagemaking - Jay Ruby
15. 'Word is Out' and 'Gay USA' - Lee Atwell
16. Building a mock-documentary schema - Jane Roscoe and Craig Hight
17. Sounds real: Music and documentary - John Corner
18. 'Bowling for Columbine': A review - Christopher Sharrett and William Luhr
Part Four: Changing contexts in television
19. The McCarthy 'See It Now' broadcast - Fred W. Friendly
20. An independent with the networks - Robert L. Drew
21. New boy: An independent with Israel TV - Alan Rosenthal
22. Reflections on 'An American Family' - Craig Gilbert
23. 'American High': Documentary as episodic television - Ben Levin
24. Documentary and truth on television: The crisis of 1999 - John Ellis
Part Five: Versions of history
25. History on the public screen I - Donald Watt
26. History on the public screen II - Jerry Kuehl
27. Historical analysis: Content, production and reception - John O'Connor
28. Narrative, invention and history - Jeffrey Youdelman
29. Against the ivory tower: An apologia for 'popular' historical documentaries - Dirk Eitzen
30. The event: Archive and imagination - Stella Bruzzi
Part Six: Docudrama: Border disputes
31. Dramadoc / docudrama: The law and regulation - Derek Paget
32. US Docudrama and 'Movie-of-the-Week' - Steve Lipkin
33. Death of a princess: Interview with Anthony Thomas - Alan Rosenthal
34. Dramatized documentary - Leslie Woodhead
35. Where are we going, and how and why? - Ian McBride
