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Claiming the Real: Documentary: Grierson and Beyond

Claiming the Real: Documentary: Grierson and Beyond

by Winston (Author)

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    Illustrated 2008

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Claiming the Real II describes the origins, development and current state of documentary cinema, and the social, political, industrial and ethical factors that determine its production. This new edition addresses the ethical quagmires, digital technologies and proliferating forms that have transformed documentary cinema.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 344
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: BFI Publishing
Published: 20 Nov 2008
ISBN 10: 1844572714
ISBN 13: 9781844572717

Author Bio
BRIAN WINSTON is the Lincoln Professor of Communications at the University of Lincoln, and has been involved with documentary since 1963. He has an Emmy for documentary scriptwriting; has taught documentary in both the US and the UK; and has long been involved with many international documentary film festivals and the Visible Evidence conference series. Winston first wrote about documentary in 1978. He is the author of a number of books, including Media, Technology and Society: A History, from the Telegraph to the Internet (1998), a volume on Fires Were Started- (1999) in the BFI Film Classics series, Lies, Damn Lies and Documentaries (2000) and Messages: Free Expression, Media and the West, from Gutenberg to Google (2005).