Watching the World: Screen documentary and audiences

✍ Scribed by Thomas Austin

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 224
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Watching the world extends the reach of documentary studies by investigating recent instances of screen documentary and the uses made of them by audiences

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Continuity and change: the documentary ‘boom’
Seeing, feeling, knowing: Etre et avoir
‘Suspense, fright, emotion, happy ending’: documentary form and audience response to Touching the Void
‘The most confusing tears’: home video, sex crime and indeterminacy in Capturing the Friedmans
Approaching the invisible centre: middle-class identity and documentary film
‘Our planet reveals its secrets’: wildlife documentaries on television
Conclusion: documentary world views
Methodological appendix
Select bibliography
Index

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