From Grierson to the docu-soap : breaking the boundaries
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From Grierson to the docu-soap : breaking the boundaries
University of Luton Press, c2000
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Papers (some revised) first presented at a conference held Jan., 1999 at the University of Stirling
Includes bibliographical references
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Description
"From Grierson to the Docu-Soap" explores a range of issues relating to documentary's achievements 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 international development of documentary, with particular reference to his work in the territories that once formed part of the British Empire. In the second part, an overriding concern with documentary's future (as perceived through its present) is reflected in a number of essays devoted to new developments in the genre. Here the major topic for discussion is how, in today's media environment, documentary can preserve some of its fundamental ambitions to give us insights into contemporary and historical realities.Among the matters addressed are the ways in which documentarists have resorted to a wide range of fictional techniques in what is usually categorised as non-fiction work. How are these techniques employed? What safeguards can be introduced to prevent audiences - and nowadays even broadcasters themselves! - from being hoodwinked?
Are the boundaries that mark out the factual genre becoming increasingly blurred as film and programme makers come under even greater commercial pressure? Other papers debate the significance of the new technologies for documentary's further development. What implications does the introduction of digital technology have for both the filming and editing process? What role do CD-ROMS play in the dissemination and reception of documentary material? And what new forms of producer/user interaction will be made possible, now that archive material can be made so readily available?
Table of Contents
- IntroductionPart I: Grierson's legacyGrierson 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
- Poru Ruta: Paul Rotha and the politics of translation - Abe Mark Nornes
- Germaine Dulac and French documentary film-making in the 1930s - Si n Reynolds
- Grierson and the public relations industry in Britain - Jacquie L'EtangPart II: The changing culture of British televisionBreaking 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
- '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 the defining 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
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