ISBN 9780814326398 | 0814326390 Textbooks - "Documenting the Documentary Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video" by Grant eds Barry K Barry Keith Barry Keith Jeanette Sloniowski EditorBarry Keith Grant EditorJeannette Sloniowski ForewordBill Nichols

Authors: Grant - eds. - Barry K. - Barry Keith - Barry Keith / Jeanette Sloniowski - Editor-Barry …
ISBN 10: 0814326390
ISBN 13: 9780814326398
Release: September 1, 1998
Format: Paperback (496 pages)
List Price: $29.95
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Book Description:
Documenting the Documentary features essays by 27 film scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender, and representation-but always in terms of how they arise out of or are involved in the reading of specific documentaries as particular textual constructions. By closely reading documentaries as rich visual works, this anthology fills a void in the critical writing on documentaries, which tends to privilege production over aesthetic pleasure. As we increasingly perceive and comprehend the world through visual media, understanding the textual strategies by which individual documentaries are organized has become critically important. Documenting the Documentary offers clear, serious, and insightful analyses of documentary films, and is a welcome balance between theory and criticism, abstract conceptualization and concrete analysis.

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Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video