Crafting Truth Documentary Form and Meaning

Name: Crafting Truth Documentary Form and Meaning
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ISBN: 9780813549033

ISBN-10: 0813549035

ISBN-13: 9780813549033

Edition: 2011

Authors: Louise Spence, Vinicius Navarro

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Documentaries such as Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman'sBorn into Brothels, Michael Moore'sFahrenheit 9/11, Jeffrey Blitz'sSpellbound, along withMarch of the PenguinsandAn Inconvenient Truthhave achieved critical as well as popular success. Although nonfiction film may have captured imaginations, many viewers enter and leave theaters with a naïve concept of "truth" and "reality"-for them, documentaries are information sources. But is truth or reality readily available, easily acquired, or undisputed? Or do documentaries convey illusions of truth and reality? What aesthetic means are used to build these illusions? A documentary's sounds and images are always the product of selection and choice,…

Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 12/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.90" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

LOUISE SPENCE is Professor of Media Studies at Sacred Heart University. She is a co-author of the award-winning Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences (2000) and an avid soap opera fan.

Vinicius Navarro is Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, USA.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



General Concepts



Authenticity



Evidence



Authority



Responsibility



Structural Organization



Argument



Dramatic Stories, Poetic and Essay Documentaries



Formal Techniques



Editing



Camerawork



The Profilmic



Sounds (Coauthored with Carl Lewis)


Index