Documentary Display: Re-Viewing Nonfiction Film and Video
(Part of the Nonfictions Series)
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1905674724
ISBN13:9781905674725
Release Date:December 2008
Publisher:Wallflower Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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