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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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Product Details
  • Weight: 1179g
  • Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jun 2020
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781119685661

About

Alexandra Juhasz is Chair of the Film Department at Brooklyn College CUNY. She is the author of AIDS TV (1995) Women of Vision (2001) F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing co-edited with Jesse Lerner (2005) Learning from YouTube (2011) and co-editor of Sisters in the Life (with Yvonne Welbon 2018) and AIDS and the Distribution of Crises (with Nishant Shahani and Jih-Fei Cheng). Dr Juhasz is the producer of the fake documentary feature films The Watermelon Woman (1997) and The Owls (2010) as well as many real documentaries. Her current work is on radical digital media literacy given that fact of fake news: fakenews-poetry.com. Alisa Lebow is Professor of Screen Media at the University of Sussex. Her publications include the interactive project Filming Revolution (2018) The Cinema of Me (2012) and First Person Jewish (2008) along with 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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