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The act of documenting : documentary film in the 21st century / Brian Winston, Gail Vanstone and Wang Chi London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Call No: 761 WINAuthor: Winston, Brian ; Vanstone, Gail ; Chi, Wang Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPubDate: 2017PhysDes: xii ; 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; FILMMAKING ; AESTHETICS ; EDITING ; PRODUCTION ; CAMERAS Summary: “Fiercely argued, urgently rendered, and rigorously researched, The Act of Documenting whacks through the ethical, political, moral, evidentiary, and argumentative acts undergirding documentary production and reception. This gutsy, vital book cuts to the core of documentary: it interrogates the place of documentary in the world and how it engages people and ideas in ways that truly matter. Moving adroitly between the histories of analog documentary and the promising landscapes of digital forms, this substantial, sage book irrefutably shows that ethics, politics, and philosophical inquiry override formats, interfaces, and technologies. Polemical yet lyrical, forceful yet inviting, this book leaves the reader exhilarated with new ways of thinking about and through documentary. The opening chapter précis could be assembled as an intellectual toolkit for all us in the act of documentary-theorists, historians, practitioners, programmers, or offered as a manifesto cracking open the most salient issues demanding our attention and action.” -- Patricia R. Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies, Ithaca College, USANotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781501309175
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Claiming the real : the Griersonian documentary and its legitimations / Brian Winston London: British Film Institute, 1995.
Call No: 761 WINAuthor: Winston, Brian CorpAuthor: British Film InstitutePlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 1995PhysDes: 301 p. ; 24 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARIES ; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA ; REALISM IN FILMS ; THEORY ; CINEMA VERITE ; CINEMA-DIRECT ; GRIERSON, JOHN ; WISEMAN, FREDERICK ; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI Summary: "Recent technological developments in the field of image manipulation mea that the 'evidence' of the photograph is no longer incontrovertible. The camera, it seems, can lie. Alterations may noe be made to still or moving images which materially change their meaning yet which are undetectable.
What does this do to the status of the documentary film? In this informed and lively book Brian Winston rewrites the history of the documentary to take account of technological change. He subjects the great figures of the past - Grierson, Flaherty, Dziga-Verov - to a searcing critique, and examines both the principles and practice of the major movements of documentary, such as cinema verite. He offers his own definition of the essential difference between fiction film and documentary, and identifies the fundamentally ethical basis of any film practice which attempts to capture the 'truth'" -- Taken from the back cover.Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-294) and indexISBN: 0851704638 (cased); 0851704646 (pbk)LON: 11552015
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The documentary film book / edited by Brian Winston London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Call No: 761 DOCAuthor: Winston, Brian CorpAuthor: British Film InstituteSource: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2013PhysDes: 416 pages ; 25 cmSubject: AFRICA ; ART CINEMA ; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; BLACK CINEMA ; BRAZIL ; CINEMA-DIRECT ; CINEMA VERITE ; DOCUMENTARIES ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS ; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; HISTORY ON TV ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; ISRAEL ; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA ; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES ; PALESTINE ; POLITICAL FILMS ; RACE AND THE CINEMA ; REVOLUTIONARY THEMES IN FILMS ; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY ; REALITY TV ; GRIERSON, JOHN ; MOORE, MICHAEL ; VERTOV, DZIGA ; AFRICA RISING (US, Paula Heredia, 2009) ; AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER (UK, Nick Bloomfield & Joan Churchill, 2003) ; CHRONIQUE D' UN ETE (FR, Jean Rouch/Edgar Morin, 1961) ; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929) ; MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) Summary: Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never been more popular than it is today. Edited by one of the leading British authorities in the field, The Documentary Film Book is an essential guide to current thinking on documentary film.
In a series of fascinating essays, key international experts discuss the theory of documentary, outline current understandings of its history (from pre-Flaherty to the post-Griersonian world of digital 'i-Docs'), survey documentary production (from Africa to Europe, and from the Americas to Asia), consider documentaries by marginalised minority communities, and assess its contribution to other disciplines and arts. Brought together here in one volume, these scholars offer compelling evidence as to why, over the last few decades, documentary has come to the centre of screen studies. -- BOOK BLURBISBN: 9781844573417Contents: Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword: Why Documentaries Matter -- Introduction: The Filmed Documentary --; PART I: DOCUMENTARY VALUES -- The Question of Evidence, the Power of Rhetoric and Documentary Film: Bill Nichols -- 'I'll Believe It When I Trust the Source': Documentary Images and Visual Evidence: Carl Plantinga -- 'The Performance Documentary': The Performing Film-Maker, the Acting Subject: Stella Bruzzi -- On Truth, Objectivity and Partisanship: The Case of Michael Moore: Douglas Kellner -- CGI and the End of Photography as Evidence: Taylor Downing -- Drawn From Life: The Animated Documentary: Andy Glynne -- Dramadoc? Docudrama? The Limits and Protocols of a Televisual Form: Derek Paget -- Ambiguous Audiences: Annette Hill -- Life As Narrativised: Brian Winston -- The Dance of Documentary Ethics: Pratap Rughani -- Deaths, Transfigurations and the Future: John Corner --; PART II: DOCUMENTARY PARADIGMS -- Problems in Historiography: The Documentary Tradition Before Nanook of the North: Charles Musser -- John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement: Ian Aitken -- Challenges For Change: Canada's National Film Board: Thomas Waugh and Ezra Winton -- Grierson's Legacies: Australia and New Zealand: Deane Williams -- New Deal Documentary and the North Atlantic Welfare State: Zoe Druick and Jonathan Kahana -- The Triumph of Observationalism: Direct Cinema in the USA: Dave Saunders -- Russian and Soviet Documentary: From Vertov to Sokurov: Ian Christie -- The Radical Tradition in Documentary Film-making, 1920s–50s: Bert Hogenkamp -- Le Groupe des trente: The Poetic Tradition: Elena Von Kassel Siambani -- Cinéma Vérité: Vertov Revisited: Genevieve Van Cauwenberge -- Beyond Sobriety: Documentary Diversions: Craig Hight --; PART III: DOCUMENTARY HORIZONS -- Eastwards: Abe Mark Nornes -- Africa N.: Frank Ukadike -- Images From the South: Contemporary Documentary in Argentina and Brazil: Ana Amado and Maria Dora Mourao -- 'Roadblock' Films, 'Children's Resistance' Films and 'Blood Relations' Films: Israeli and Palestinian Documentary Post-Intifada: Il Raya Morag -- Sacred, Mundane and Absurd Revelations of the Everyday – Poetic Vérité in the Eastern European Tradition; Susanna Helke --; PART IV: DOCUMENTARY VOICES -- First-Person Political: Alisa Lebow -- Feminist Documentaries: Finding, Seeing and Using Them: Julia Lesage -- Pioneers of Black Documentary Film: Pearl Bowser -- LGTBs' Documentary Identity: Christopher Pullen -- Docusoaps: The Ordinary Voice as Popular Entertainment: Richard Kilborn -- Reality TV: A Sign of the Times?: Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn --; PART V: DOCUMENTARY DISCIPLINES -- Anthropology: The Evolution of Ethnographic Film: Paul Henley -- Science, Society and Documentary: Tim Boon -- History Documentaries for Television: Ann Gray -- Music, Documentary, Music Documentary: Michael Chanan -- Art, Documentary as Art; Michael Renov --; PART VI: DOCUMENTARY FUTURES -- Documentary as Open Space: Helen de Michiel and Patricia R. Zimmermann -- 'This Great Mapping of Ourselves': New Documentary Forms Online: John Dovey and Mandy Rose -- New Platforms for 'Docmedia': 'Varient of a Manifesto': Peter Wintonick --; Afterword: The Unchanging Question: Brian Winston -- Index
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Lies, damn lies and documentaries / Brian Winston London: British Film Institute, 2000.
Call No: 761 WINAuthor: Winston, Brian Place: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2000PhysDes: iv, 186 p. ; 24 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARIES ; AUDIENCES ; "REALITY" SHOWS ; LAW AND TV ; GOVERNMENT CONTROL,TV ; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS ; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA ; ETHICS AND TV ; CONNECTION, THE [TV] (UK, 1996) Summary: "Recent scandals surrounding faked TV documentaries have brought the whole issue of ethics to the foreground of media debate. Most good documentarists and journalists would agree that ethics lie at the heart of responsible programme-making. However, the topic awaits full exploration and top TV executives recoil at the very mention of the word.
Looking at the crises of confidence in public service broadcasting and the controversy surrounding docusoaps, Brian Winston's major new work provides a foundational study of ethics and the documentary." -- Taken from book cover.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0851707971(pbk.); 0851707963(hbk)LON: 21663027Contents: Part 1: The state of the documentary -- Chapter one: 'Fakery' -- Chapter two: Public service -- Part 2: Regulators -- Chapter 3: Law -- Chapter 4 -- Regulation -- Part 3: Documentarists -- Chapter 5: Free expression -- Chapter 6 -- Ethics -- Conclusion
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Technologies of seeing : photography, cinematography and television / Brian Winston London: British Film Institute, 1996.
Call No: 701 WINAuthor: Winston, Brian CorpAuthor: British Film InstitutePlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 1996PhysDes: viii, 143 p. : ill. ; 25 cmNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0851706029 (pbk.); 0851706010Order Received: 1997LON: abn97098896; 13116248
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