New Documentary: A Critical Introduction
β Stella Bruzzi
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2006
π Routledge
π English
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New Documentary: A Critical Introduction provides a comprehensive account of the last two decades of documentary filmmaking in Britain, the US and Europe. Stella Bruzzi's engaging textbook discusses key genres, filmmakers, and issues for the study of non-fiction film and television, including: key texts such as the Zapruder film of Kennedy's assassination, Shoah, Hoop Dreams and Michael Apted's 7 Up series documentary genres, from current affairs programming to 'fly on the wall' documentaries to 'reality tv' series the work of documentary filmmakers such as Emile de Antonio, Fred Wiseman, Nick Broomfield, Molly Dineen and Paul Watson the work of avant-garde filmmakers such as Chris Marker, Patrick Keiller, Peter Greenaway and Wim Wenders, whose films challenge conventions of documentary filmmaking movies based on historical events, such as 'JFK' and 'Nixon' faux documentaries such as This is Spinal Tap, Bob Roberts and Man Bites Dog* gender identity, queer theory, performance, 'race' and spectatorship.Bruzzi shows how theories of documentary filmmaking can be applied to contemporary texts and genres, and discusses the relationship between recent, innovative examples of the genre and the more established canon of documentary.
β¦ Table of Contents
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of Figures......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Ground rules......Page 18
The event: archive and newsreel......Page 20
Narration: the film and its voice......Page 49
The legacy of direct cinema......Page 76
New British observational documentary: 'docusoaps'......Page 84
Documentary journeys: Shoah, London......Page 108
Performance......Page 134
The president and the image: Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton......Page 136
The performative documentary: Barker, Dineen, Broomfield......Page 162
Notes......Page 190
Bibliography......Page 196
Index......Page 203
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