Stephen Most

Stories Make the World (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make the World, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of how documentary filmmakers and other storytellers come to understand their subjects and cast light on the world through their art. Drawing on the author's decades of experience behind the scenes of television and film documentaries, this is an indispensable account of the principles and paradoxes that attend the quest to represent reality truthfully.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785335778
• Artikelnr.: 50914956

Autorenporträt

Stephen Most is a writer and filmmaker. He has writing credits on four Academy Award "best documentary" nominees and five Emmy-winning films, including Wonders of Nature, Promises, and Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time. His book River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin was published in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I: STORYTELLERS
* Pedro Azabache
* Eduardo Calderón
* Erik H. Erikson
* Ginetta Sagan
* Hannah Arendt
PART II: BEGINNINGS AND ENDS
* Achilles' Shield
* Fire in the Cave
* Theater of History
PART III: THE NATURAL WORLD
* On the Interstellarnet
* The View from the Sierra Madre
* Upstream, Downstream
PART IV: THE HUMAN WORLD
* Imagining Freedom
* Land of Plenty
* Fields of Centers
* Through the Wall
PART V: THE ANTHROPOCENE
* Baked Alaska
* Sounds of a Changing Planet
* The Rim of the World
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Selected Filmography
Notes and Sources
Index