Theorizing Documentary - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415903815 ISBN 13 : 9780415903813

Editeur : Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

"Theorizing Documentary" addresses a wide range of theoretical issues specific to the documentary form. Documentaries encompass a wide range of forms, educational TV, personality profiles, ethnography, cine-poems, polemic tracts, and autobiography. What unites them is their common bond with the domain of lived experience. Today, as fictional and non-fictional forms become increasingly hybrid (TV docu-drama, historically-based feature films such as Oliver Stone's "JFK", "info-tainment", tabloid television), the question "What is documentary?" is particularly compelling. "Theorizing Documentary" offers essays by leading critics and theorists, addressing questions such as: How fictional is non-fiction? What gets to count on film as history - and why? To what extent are representational forms adequate substitutions for social historical phenomena? Can one culture (or subculture) ever be translated for another? How can the documentarist prevent the spectator from conflating real life and the film's fabricated reality?

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form. Questions addressed include `What is documentary?' and `How fictional is nonfiction?'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415903815
• ISBN 13: 9780415903813
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Renov Michael
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible