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Documentary Screens: Non-Fiction Film and Television
Keith Beattie
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Description for Documentary Screens: Non-Fiction Film and Television
Paperback. 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. Author is from the University of Queensland. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333741177
SKU
V9780333741177
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About Keith Beattie
KEITH BEATTIE is a Lecturer at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Scar that Binds (New York University Press, 1998).
Reviews for Documentary Screens: Non-Fiction Film and Television
'I finished reading Documentary Screens...today and find it to be the most accessible, readable, up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative book of its kind.' - Sam B. Girgus, Vanderbilt University, USA