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New Challenges for Documentary

New Challenges for Documentary

by Alan Rosenthal (Editor), JohnCorner (Editor)

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The first edition of New challenges for documentary provided a major stimulus for teaching about documentary film and television and fresh encouragement for critical thinking about practice. This second edition brings together many new contributions both from academics and filmmakers, reflecting shifts both in documentary production itself, and in ways of discussing it. Once again, the emphasis has been on clear and provocative writing, sympathetic to the practical challenges of documentary film-making but making connections with a range of work in media and communications analysis. With its wide range of contributors and the international scope of its agenda, New challenges for documentary will be essential reading for general filmmakers and documentary students both of academic and practical inclinations.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 512
 Edition: 2nd
 Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 10 Feb 2005
ISBN 10: 0719068991
ISBN 13: 9780719068997

Media Reviews
Was television good for documentary? Hard to believe this question was once posed, since television has so clearly become the dominant institution controlling what counts as documentary. This shift is well reflected in Alan Rosenthal and John Corner's thoughtful and remarkably comprehensive anthology, which is a substantially revised version of Rosenthal's original 1987 collection. In come welcome discussions not only of docudrama and dramadoc - subtly different genres - and timely reflections on the spread of docusoap as the documentary impulse finds new ways of staying on primetime television. --Ian Christie, Professor of film and media history, Birkbeck, University of London
Was television 0;good1; for documentary? Hard to believe this question was once posed, since television has so clearly become the dominant institution controlling what counts as 0;documentary1;. This shift is well reflected in Alan Rosenthal and John Corner7;s thoughtful and remarkably comprehensive anthology, which is a substantially revised version of Rosenthal7;s original 1987 collection. In come welcome discussions not only of 0;docudrama1; and 0;dramadoc1; - subtly different genres - and timely reflections on the spread of 0;docusoap1; as the documentary impulse finds new ways of staying on primetime television. --Ian Christie, Professor of film and media history, Birkbeck, University of London
Was television good for documentary? Hard to believe this question was once posed, since television has so clearly become the dominant institution controlling what counts as documentary . This shift is well reflected in Alan Rosenthal and John Corner's thoughtful and remarkably comprehensive anthology, which is a substantially revised version of Rosenthal's original 1987 collection. In come welcome discussions not only of docudrama and dramadoc - subtly different genres - and timely reflections on the spread of docusoap as the documentary impulse finds new ways of staying on primetime television. --Ian Christie, Professor of film and media history, Birkbeck, University of London
Author Bio
Alan Rosenthal is Professor of Communications at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a documentary film-maker. John Corner is Professor in the School of Politics and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool