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A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film

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A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film presents a collection of original essays that explore major issues surrounding the state of current documentary films and their capacity to inspire and effect change. 

  • Presents a comprehensive collection of essays relating to all aspects of contemporary documentary films
  • Includes nearly 30 original essays by top documentary film scholars and makers, with each thematic grouping of essays sub-edited by major figures in the field
  • Explores a variety of themes central to contemporary documentary filmmakers and the study of documentary film the planet, migration, work, sex, virus, religion, war, torture, and surveillance
  • Considers a wide diversity of documentary films that fall outside typical canons, including international and avant-garde documentaries presented in a variety of media
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  • Weight: 1293g
  • Dimensions: 175 x 249mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Feb 2015
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780470671641

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Alexandra Juhasz is Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College. She is the author of AIDS TV (1995) Women of Vision (2001) F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truths Undoing co-edited with Jesse Lerner (2005) and Learning from YouTube (2011). Dr. Juhasz is also the producer of the fake documentary feature films The Watermelon Woman (1997) and The Owls (2010) as well as many real documentaries. Alisa Lebow is a Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. Her publications include First Person Jewish (2008) and The Cinema of Me (2012) and numerous articles on aspects of documentary ranging from art and documentary to questions of the political in documentary. Lebow has also made several documentaries including Outlaw (1994) Treyf (1998) and For the Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq (2006).

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