Documentary Display: Re-Viewing Nonfiction Film and Video Contributor(s): Beattie, Keith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1905674724 ISBN-13: 9781905674725 Publisher: Wallflower Press OUR PRICE: $31.68 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: Not all documentary films and videos are sober depictions of the real world. Documentary representations can present expressive, entertaining, and spectacular images and explore modes of "showing," in which sensation is the vehicle of cognition and knowledge. This display is analyzed within the popular and prominent forms of found-footage film, "rockumentary," the city film, nonfiction surf film and video, and certain views of natural science. An accessible and informed study, its focus on entertaining, popular, spectacular, and sensational forms of nonfiction representation is an important contribution to theoretical analysis of documentary film and video. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
Dewey: 070.18 |
Series: Nonfictions |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.80 lbs) 224 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Not all documentary films and videos are sober depictions of the real world. Documentary representations can present expressive, entertaining and spectacular images. This book examines such innovative approaches as they occur within the process of "documentary display"--a practice which emphasizes the visual attractions of documentary representation. Works of documentary display explore modes of exhibitionistic "showing" in which sensation is frequently the vehicle of cognition and knowledge. Such a display is analyzed within the popular and prominent forms of found-footage film, "rockumentary", the city film, nonfiction surf film and video and certain views of natural science topics. This accessible and informed study, with its focus on entertaining, popular, spectacular and sensational forms of representation, makes an important contribution to theoretical analyses of documentary film and video. |