Thomas Austin

Watching the World

Screen documentary and audiences

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Produktbeschreibung

Watching the world extends the reach of documentary studies by investigating recent instances of screen documentary and the uses made of them by audiences

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9780719085581
• ISBN-10: 0719085586
• Artikelnr.: 33615186

Autorenporträt

Thomas Austin is Senior Lecturer in Media and Film at the University of Sussex.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Continuity and change: the documentary 'boom' 2 Seeing
feeling
knowing: Etre et Avoir 3 'Suspense
fright
emotion
happy ending': documentary form and audience response to Touching the Void 4 'The most confusing tears': home video
sex crime
and indeterminacy in Capturing the Friedmans 5 Approaching the invisible centre: middle-class identity and documentary film 6 'Our planet reveals its secrets': wildlife documentaries on television 7 Conclusion: Documentary world views