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Kill the documentary : a letter to filmmakers, students, and scholars / Jill Godmilow ; foreword by Bill Nichols.
De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 Available online
De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Godmilow, Jill, author.
- Series:
- Investigating Visible Evidence: New Challenges for Documentary
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Documentary films--Philosophy.
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. In place of the conventional documentary, she advocates for a "postrealist" cinema.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Manifestly Radical: A Foreword, by Bill Nichols
- Acknowledgments
- I Call This Book a Letter
- Introduction-a Letter to Filmmakers
- 1. Abandon the Conventional Documentary-Reject Realism as the Only Authentic Nonfiction Form
- 2. Take Action-Make Useful Postrealist Films
- 3. Forty Postrealist Strategies to Learn from and Borrow
- 4. The Toolkit
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Godmilow, Jill Kill the Documentary
- ISBN:
- 0-231-55470-2
- OCLC:
- 1298388753
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