Kill the Documentary : : A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars / / Jill Godmilow.
Can the documentary be useful? Can a film change how its viewers think about the world and their potential role in it? In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. She critiques documentary films from Nanook of the N...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Investigating Visible Evidence: New Challenges for Documentary
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Manifestly Radical: A Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- I Call This Book a Letter
- Introduction— a Letter to Filmmakers
- 1. Abandon the Conventional Documentary— Reject Realism as the Only Authentic Nonfiction Form
- 2. Take Action— Make Useful Postrealist Films
- 3. Forty Postrealist Strategies to Learn from and Borrow
- 4. The Toolkit
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index