Overview
- Offers a clear and comprehensive analysis of documentary film and television
Initiates a 'documentary studies' approach in which nonfictional work is situated within historical, economic and disciplinary contexts
Examines foundational and emergent work
Includes extended analysis of works from the UK, the US and Australia
Considers the future of visual documentary within its multiple forms of film, television and new media
Includes full details of the hire or purchase of all works examined
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About this book
Documentary productions encompass remarkable representations of surprising realities. How do documentaries achieve their ends? What types of documentaries are there? What factors are implicated in their production? Such questions animate this engaging study. Documentary Screens is a comprehensive and critical study of the formal features and histories of central categories of documentary film and television. Among the categories examined are autobiographical, indigenous and ethnographic documentary, compilation films, direct cinema and cinema verite and television documentary journalism. The book also considers recent so-called popular factual entertainment and the future of documentary film, television and new media. This provocative and accessible analysis situates wide-ranging examples from each category within the larger material forces which impact on documentary form and content. The important connection between form, content and context explored in the book constitutes a new and lively 'documentary studies' approach to documentary representation.
About the author
KEITH BEATTIE is a Lecturer at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Scar that Binds (New York University Press, 1998).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Documentary Screens
Book Subtitle: Nonfiction Film and Television
Authors: Keith Beattie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-62803-8
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 276
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Documentary