Crafting Truth
Documentary Form and Meaning
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2010
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-4903-3 (ISBN)
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Examines the ways documentaries such as Fahrenheit 9/11, Spellbound, and March of the Penguins tell their stories; how they use the camera, editing, sound, and performance; what rhetorical devices they employ; and what the theoretical, practical, and ethical implications of these choices are.
Documentaries such as Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman's Born into Brothels, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, Jeffrey Blitz's Spellbound, along with March of the Penguins and An Inconvenient Truth have achieved critical as well as popular success. Although nonfiction film may have captured imaginations, many viewers enter and leave theaters with a nanve 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, and often underscore points the filmmaker wishes to make. Crafting Truth illuminates the ways these films tell their stories; how they use the camera, editing, sound, and performance; what rhetorical devices they employ; and what the theoretical, practical, and ethical implications of these choices are. Complex documentary concepts are presented through easily accessible language, images, and a discussion of a wide range of films and videos to encourage new ways of thinking about and seeing nonfiction film.
Documentaries such as Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman's Born into Brothels, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, Jeffrey Blitz's Spellbound, along with March of the Penguins and An Inconvenient Truth have achieved critical as well as popular success. Although nonfiction film may have captured imaginations, many viewers enter and leave theaters with a nanve 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, and often underscore points the filmmaker wishes to make. Crafting Truth illuminates the ways these films tell their stories; how they use the camera, editing, sound, and performance; what rhetorical devices they employ; and what the theoretical, practical, and ethical implications of these choices are. Complex documentary concepts are presented through easily accessible language, images, and a discussion of a wide range of films and videos to encourage new ways of thinking about and seeing nonfiction film.
LOUISE SPENCE is a professor of cinema studies at Kadir Has University in Istanbul and the coauthor of the award-winning Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences (Rutgers University Press). VINICIUS NAVARRO is an assistant professor of film studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE. GENERAL CONCEPTS
1. Authenticity
2. Evidence
3. Authority
4. Responsibility
PART TWO. STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION
5. Argument
6. Dramatic Stories, Poetic and Essay Documentaries
PART THREE. FORMAL TECHNIQUES
7. Editing
8. Camerawork
9. The Profilmic
10. Sounds (coauthored with Carl Lewis)
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.1.2011 |
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Zusatzinfo | 51 illustrations. |
Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 596 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8135-4903-5 / 0813549035 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-4903-3 / 9780813549033 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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