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Title

From Grierson to the docu-soap : breaking the boundaries / edited by John Izod and Richard Kilborn with Matthew Hibberd.

Publication

Luton, Bedfordshire, UK : University of Luton Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Izod, John, 1940-
• Kilborn, R. W.
• Hibberd, Matthew.

Description

vi, 234 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This work explores a range of issues relating to the documentary's achievement over the past decades, and considers its prospects on entering the new millennium. In the first part of the book, a number of writers reappraise John Grierson's contribution to the history of documentary. Most focus on his influence on the internation.

Subject

• Grierson, John, 1898-1972 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses
• Documentary films > History and criticism > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Papers (some revised) first presented at a conference held Jan., 1999 at the University of Stirling.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- pt. I. Grierson's legacy. Grierson in Canada: the peak of his creative career? / Ian Lockerbie ; Stanley Hawes: a 'Grierson man' in Australia / Ina Bertand ; Crossing the cattle drive: Grierson and Australia / Deane Williams ; John Grierson in South Africa: misunderstanding apartheid / Keyan G. Tomaselli ; Pōru Rūta: Paul Rotha and the politics of translation / Abé Mark Nornes ; Germaine Dulac and French documentary film-making in the 1930s / Siân Reynolds ; Grierson and the public relations industry in Britain / Jacquie L'Etang -- pt. II. The changing culture of British television. Breaking the boundaries / John Willis ; Trailing documentaries / Peter Meech ; The docu-soap: a critical assessment / Richard Kilborn ; Keeping track of the locals: governance, television and the community / Gareth Palmer ; Fearful and safe: audience response to British reality programming / Annette Hill ; "You either believe it or you don't: ... ": television documentary and pseudo-science / Vincent Campbell ; Access, authorship and voice: the emergence of community programming at the BBC / Sylvia Harvey ; Through the eyes of the Video nation / Mandy Rose ; Towards defining the digital documentary / Brent MacGregor with Roddy Simpson ; Disclaimers, denials and direct address: captioning in docudrama / Derek Paget ; Making connections: the European Convention on Human Rights, the Independent Television Commission and the documentary / Brian Winston ; Documentary and the public sphere / Michael Chanan.

ISBN

1860205771 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2001339625

OCLC

47126906

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library