New Challenges for Documentary: Second Edition

by Rosenthal, Alan; Corner, John

• ISBN13: 9780719068997
• ISBN10: 0719068991
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-10
• Publisher: GARDNER

Summary

The first edition of this book provided a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television and fresh encouragement for critical thinking about practice. This second edition brings together many new contributions both from academics and filmmakers, reflecting shifts both in documentary production itself, and in ways of discussing it. Once again, the emphasis has been on clear and provocative writing, sympathetic to the practical challenges of documentary filmmaking but making connections with a range of work in media and communications analysis.With its wide range of contributors and the international scope of its agenda, this will be essential reading for general filmmakers and documentary students both of academic and practical inclinations.

Author Biography

John Corner is Professor in the School of Politics and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool.

Alan Rosenthal is Professor of Communications at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a documentary filmmaker.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction
John Corner and Alan Rosenthal	1	(16)
Part I Theories and Forms: Documentary as Genre
1 The Voice of Documentary
Bill Nichols	17	(17)
2 The Image Mirrored: Reflexivity and the Documentary Film
Jay Ruby	34	(14)
3 Television, Documentary and the Category of the Aesthetic
John Corner	48	(11)
4 Mirrors Without Memories: Truth, History, and the New Documentary
Linda Williams	59	(20)
Part II The Inside View: Producers and Directors
5 The Canadian Film Board Unit B
D.B. Jones	79	(15)
6 'History is the Theme of All My Films': An Interview with Emile de Antonio
Gary Crowdus and Dan Georgakas	94	(16)
7 The War Game: An Interview with Peter Watkins
Alan Rosenthal	110	(11)
8 New Agendas in Black Filmmaking: An Interview with Marlon Riggs
Roy Grundmann	121	(7)
9 Jumping Off the Cliff: A Conversation with Dennis O'Rourke
Tracey Spring	128	(22)
10 The Politics of Documentary: A Symposium
Barbara Zheutlin	150	(17)
11 Staying Alive
Alan Rosenthal	167	(14)
Part III Issues of Ethics and Aesthetics
12 Ethics
Brian Winston	181	(13)
13 Ultimately We Are All Outsiders: The Ethics of Documentary Filming
Calvin Pryluck	194	(15)
14 The Ethics of Image Making; or, "They're Going to Put Me in the Movies. They're Going to Make a Big Star Out of Me ..."
Jay Ruby	209	(11)
15 Word Is Out and Gay U.S.A.
Lee Atwell	220	(10)
16 Building a Mock-Documentary Schema
Jane Roscoe and Craig Hight	230	(12)
17 Sounds Real: Music and Documentary
John Corner	242	(11)
18 Bowling for Columbine: A Review
Christopher Sharrett and William Luhr	253	(14)
Part IV Changing Contexts in Television
19 The McCarthy "See It Now" Broadcast
Fred W. Friendly	267	(13)
20 An Independent with the Networks
Robert L. Drew	280	(13)
21 New Boy: An Independent with Israel TV
Alan Rosenthal	293	(14)
22 Reflections on An American Family
Craig Gilbert	307	(20)
23 American High: Documentary as Episodic Television
Ben Levin	327	(15)
24 Documentary and Truth on Television: The Crisis of 1999
John Ellis	342	(21)
Part V Versions of History
25 History on the Public Screen, I
Donald Watt	363	(9)
26 History on the Public Screen, II
Jerry Kuehl	372	(10)
27 Historical Analysis, Stage One: Content, Production, and Reception
John O'Connor	382	(15)
28 Narration, Invention, and History
Jeffrey Youdelman	397	(12)
29 Against the Ivory Tower: An Apologia for "Popular" Historical Documentaries
Dirk Eitzen	409	(10)
30 The Event: Archive and Imagination
Stella Bruzzi	419	(16)
Part VI Docudrama: Border Disputes
31 Dramadoc Docudrama: The Law and Regulation
Derek Paget	435	(18)
32 US Docudrama and "Movie of the Week"
Steve Lipkin	453	(10)
33 Death of a Princess: The Politics of Passion, an Interview with Antony Thomas
Alan Rosenthal	463	(12)
34 Dramatised Documentary
Leslie Woodhead	475	(10)
35 Where Are We Going, and How and Why?
Ian McBride	485	(8)
Index	493