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Watching the world : screen documentary and audiences
- Title
- Watching the world : screen documentary and audiences / Thomas Austin.
- Author
- Austin, Thomas, 1966-
- Publication
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN1995.9.D6 A97 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 217 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Watching the world extends the reach of documentary studies by investigating recent instances of screen documentary and the uses made of them by audiences. The book focuses on the interfaces between textual mechanisms, promotional tactics and audiences' viewing strategies. Key topics of inquiry are: film and televisual form, truth claims and issues of trust, the pleasures, politics and ethics of documentary Case studies include Capturing the Friedmans, Etre et Avoir, Paradise Lost, Touching the Void, and wildlife documentaries on television."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Documentary films > Great Britain > History and criticism
- Documentary films > United States > History and criticism
- Documentary television programs > Great Britain > History and criticism
- Documentary television programs > United States > History and criticism
- Documentary films
- Documentary television programs
- Dokumentarfilm
- Dokumentärfilm
- Dokumentärprogram, TV
- Publik
- Great Britain
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Documentaries and Factual Films
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Documentary films.
- Documentary television programs.
- Documentaires.
- Documentaires télévisés.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Continuity and change : the documentary 'boom' -- Seeing, feeling, knowing : Entre et avoir -- 'Suspense, fright, emotion, happy ending' : documentary form and audience response to Touching the void -- 'The most confusing tears' : home video, sex crime and indeterminacy in Capturing the Friedmans -- Approaching the invisible centre : middle-class identity and documentary film -- 'Our planet reveals its secrets' : wildlife documentaries on television -- Conclusion : documentary world views.
- ISBN
- 9780719076893
- 0719076897
- LCCN
- 2008276473
- OCLC
- ocn187290108
- 187290108
- SCSB-14252685
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library