Crafting truth : documentary form and meaning / Louise Spence and Vinicius Navarro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spence, Louise.

Contributor:

Navarro, Vinicius.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Documentary films--Production and direction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Documentaries such as Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman's Born into Brothels, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, Jeffrey Blitz's Spellbound, along with March of the Penguins and An Inconvenient Truth have achieved critical as well as popular success. Although nonfiction film may have captured imaginations, many viewers enter and leave theaters with a nanve concept of "truth" and "reality"-for them, documentaries are information sources. But is truth or reality readily available, easily acquired, or undisputed? Or do documentaries convey illusions of truth and reality? What aesthetic means are used to build these illusions? A documentary's sounds and images are always the product of selection and choice, and often underscore points the filmmaker wishes to make. Crafting Truth illuminates the ways these films tell their stories; how they use the camera, editing, sound, and performance; what rhetorical devices they employ; and what the theoretical, practical, and ethical implications of these choices are. Complex documentary concepts are presented through easily accessible language, images, and a discussion of a wide range of films and videos to encourage new ways of thinking about and seeing nonfiction film.

Contents:

pt. 1. General concepts

pt. 2. Structural organization

pt. 3. Formal techniques.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283864589

1283864584

9780813552323

081355232X

OCLC:

778339942