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Taking the Long View
Richard Kilborn
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Description for Taking the Long View
Paperback. This study examines three long documentaries from Europe, each tracing the lives of individuals or groups as they mature from childhood to adulthood. It explores the reasons why long documentaries are so popular with television and cinema audiences, as well as addressing some of the issues faced by the documentary makers in producing them. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: APFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
Taking the Long View is a study of documentary series such as Michael Apted’s world-famous Seven Up films that set out to trace the life-journeys of individuals from their earliest schooldays till they are fully grown adults, often with children of their own. In addition to Seven Up, the book provides extended accounts of the two other best known longitudinal series to have been produced in the last three or four decades: Winifred and Barbara Junge’s The Children of Golzow and Swedish director Rainer Hartleb’s The Children of Jordbrö. Long docs have been an especially popular form of documentary with ... Read more
Taking the Long View is a study of documentary series such as Michael Apted’s world-famous Seven Up films that set out to trace the life-journeys of individuals from their earliest schooldays till they are fully grown adults, often with children of their own. In addition to Seven Up, the book provides extended accounts of the two other best known longitudinal series to have been produced in the last three or four decades: Winifred and Barbara Junge’s The Children of Golzow and Swedish director Rainer Hartleb’s The Children of Jordbrö. Long docs have been an especially popular form of documentary with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719078651
SKU
V9780719078651
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About Richard Kilborn
Richard Kilborn is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of Stirling -- .
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