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Doing Documentary Work
Robert Coles
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Description for Doing Documentary Work
Paperback. A study of the nature of documentary work. Utilizing the documentaries of writers, photographers and others, the book aims to show how their prose and pictures are influenced by the observers frame of reference - their social and educational background, personal morals and political beliefs. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: JFD; JHBC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 205 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 224.
Sitting in his study, William Carlos Williams once revealed to Robert Coles what he considered to be his greatest problem in writing a documentary about his patients in New Jersey. "When I'm there, sitting with those folks, listening and talking," he said to Coles, "I'm part of that life, and I'm near it in my head, too.... Back here, sitting near this typewriter--its different. I'm a writer. I'm a doctor living in Rutherford who is describing 'a world elsewhere.'" Williams captured the great difficulty in documentary writing--the gulf that separates the reality of the subject from the point of view ... Read more
Sitting in his study, William Carlos Williams once revealed to Robert Coles what he considered to be his greatest problem in writing a documentary about his patients in New Jersey. "When I'm there, sitting with those folks, listening and talking," he said to Coles, "I'm part of that life, and I'm near it in my head, too.... Back here, sitting near this typewriter--its different. I'm a writer. I'm a doctor living in Rutherford who is describing 'a world elsewhere.'" Williams captured the great difficulty in documentary writing--the gulf that separates the reality of the subject from the point of view ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
223g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195124958
SKU
V9780195124958
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Ref
99-30
About Robert Coles
Robert Coles is a child psychiatrist, and the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University. An essayist, poet, and noted writer, he is a founding member of the Center of Documentary Studies at Duke University and co-editor of the documentary magazine Double Take.
Reviews for Doing Documentary Work
"The complicated, tightrope dance of the ethical documentarian is the subject of Robert Coles' superb Doing Documentary Work. "
The Boston Book Review "Coles ensures that one will never look at documentary work
no matter how well done or well meaning
quite the same way again."
Washington Post Book World "Journalists, social workers, and therapists, as well as producers of print or film documentaries, ... Read more
The Boston Book Review "Coles ensures that one will never look at documentary work
no matter how well done or well meaning
quite the same way again."
Washington Post Book World "Journalists, social workers, and therapists, as well as producers of print or film documentaries, ... Read more