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Contemporary Documentary includes chapters on some of the best known mainstream documentary producers and directors of the twenty first century. It also includes chapters on recent innovations and different ways of studying the genre, including a chapter on crowdsourced films consisting of interviews with producers, a chapter on video activism concentrating on questions of distribution and exhibition, and a chapter on web-based documentaries. The editors situate this contemporary work within the history of documentary, and within industrial, political, and technological contexts. Each chapter…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Contemporary Documentary includes chapters on some of the best known mainstream documentary producers and directors of the twenty first century. It also includes chapters on recent innovations and different ways of studying the genre, including a chapter on crowdsourced films consisting of interviews with producers, a chapter on video activism concentrating on questions of distribution and exhibition, and a chapter on web-based documentaries. The editors situate this contemporary work within the history of documentary, and within industrial, political, and technological contexts. Each chapter will also include a reading list for further study and images to illustrate the films discussed.
Autorenporträt
Daniel Marcus teaches media and documentary studies at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of Happy Days and Wonder Years: The Fifties and the Sixties in Contemporary Cultural Politics, and editor of ROAR! The Paper Tiger Television Guide to Media Activism. Selmin Kara is an Assistant Professor at OCAD University. She is interested in digital aesthetics and sound in post-cinema and documentary. Her work has appeared in Studies in Documentary Film, The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media, and Music and Sound in Nonfiction Film.