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Reclaiming Popular Documentary
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25,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 06.07.2021 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780253056900 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 406 |
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<p><b>The documentary has achieved rising popularity over the past two decades thanks to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. Despite this, documentary studies still tends to favor works that appeal primarily to specialists and scholars. </b></p>
<p><i>Reclaiming Popular Documentary </i>reverses this long-standing tendency by showing that documentaries can be—and are—made for mainstream or commercial audiences. Editors Christie Milliken and Steve Anderson, who consider popular documentary to be a subfield of documentary studies, embrace an expanded definition of <i>popular</i> to acknowledge the many evolving forms of documentary, such as branded entertainment, fictional hybrids, and works with audience participation. Together, these essays address emerging documentary forms—including web-docs, virtual reality, immersive journalism, viral media, interactive docs, and video-on-demand—and offer the critical tools viewers need to analyze contemporary documentaries and consider how they are persuaded by and represented in documentary media. </p>
<p>By combining perspectives of scholars and makers, <i>Reclaiming Popular Documentary </i>brings new understandings and international perspectives to familiar texts using critical models that will engage media scholars and fans alike.</p>
<p><i>Reclaiming Popular Documentary </i>reverses this long-standing tendency by showing that documentaries can be—and are—made for mainstream or commercial audiences. Editors Christie Milliken and Steve Anderson, who consider popular documentary to be a subfield of documentary studies, embrace an expanded definition of <i>popular</i> to acknowledge the many evolving forms of documentary, such as branded entertainment, fictional hybrids, and works with audience participation. Together, these essays address emerging documentary forms—including web-docs, virtual reality, immersive journalism, viral media, interactive docs, and video-on-demand—and offer the critical tools viewers need to analyze contemporary documentaries and consider how they are persuaded by and represented in documentary media. </p>
<p>By combining perspectives of scholars and makers, <i>Reclaiming Popular Documentary </i>brings new understandings and international perspectives to familiar texts using critical models that will engage media scholars and fans alike.</p>
<p>Acknowledgments<br><b>Part I: Popular Documentary Today<br></b>1. Pop Docs: The Work of Popular Documentary in the Age of Alternate Facts, by Christie Milliken and Steve F. Anderson<br>2. Reclaiming the Popular for Public Interest Documentary, by Ezra Winton<br><b>Part II: Documentary Ecologies<br></b>3. Public Television's Role in the U.S. Documentary Ecology, by Patricia Aufderheide<br>4. On (Not) Falling from the Sky: Fly-Over Global Documentary as Capitalist Body Genre, by Zoë Druick<br>5. Accelerating Deceleration: Slow Violence and Time-Lapse Cinematography, by Devon Coutts<br><b>Part III: Short Forms and Web Practices<br></b>6. From Elegy to Kitsch: Spectacles of Epistephelia in <i>Food, Inc.</i> and Early Food Documentaries, by Sabiha Ahmad Khan<br>7. Errol Morris, <i>The New York Times</i>, Docmedia, and Op-Docs as Pop Docs, by Anthony Kinik<br>8. Popular Music & Short Form Nonfiction: Is the Web a Forum for Documentary Innovation?, by Michael Brendan Baker<br><b>Part IV: Auteurs, Politics and Popularity<br></b>9. From the Essay Film to the Video Essay: Between the Critical and the Popular, by Allison de Fren<br>10. Errol Morris and the Ends of Irony, by Jonathan Kahana<br>11. <i>Vérite:</i> Lauren Greenfield and the Challenge of Feminist Documentary, by Shilyh Warren<br><b>Part V: Documentary Genres<br></b>12. <i>Citizenfour</i> and the Anti-Representational Turn: Aesthetics of Failure in the Information Age, by S. Topiary Landberg<br>13. Of Kids and Sharks: Victims, Heroes and the Politics of Melodrama in Popular Documentary, by Christie Milliken<br>14. Strategies of the Popular Music Documentary's Recovery Mode, by Landon Palmer<br><b>Part VI: Engaging Audiences<br></b>15. Assembling <i>Nanking</i>: Archival Filmmaking in the Popular Historical Documentary, by Dylan Nelson<br>16. Virality is Virility: Viral Media, Popularity and Violence, by Alexandra Juhasz<br>17. Populism, Participation and Perpetual Incompletion: Performing an Urban History Commons, by Rick Prelinger<br>18. The Armchair Juror: Audience Engagement in True Crime Documentaries, by George S. Larke-Walsh<br>19. New (Old) Ontologies of Documentary, by Steve F. Anderson<br>Index</p>
<p>Christie Milliken is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. She is author of journal articles and book chapters on sex education film and video, 1960s cinema, and AIDS video activism. Steve F. Anderson is Professor of Digital Media in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and in the Department of Design Media Arts. He is author of <i>Technologies of History: Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past</i> and <i>Technologies of Vision: The War Between Data and Images</i>.</p>
<p><a href="https://newbooksnetwork.com/reclaiming-popular-documentary">New Books Network interview.</a></p>
<p>Despite the broad epistemological influence of commercially successful documentary films in the past several decades, documentary studies has frequently overlooked popular documentaries in favor of more formally experimental works. In <i>Reclaiming Popular Documentary</i>, Christie Milliken and Steve Anderson have assembled a stunning roster of scholars to begin to fill this scholarly gap by taking seriously the power and problems posed by popular documentaries at a moment in which the very grounds of truth appear increasingly unstable.</p>
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