Documentary Screens: Nonfiction Film and Television

by Keith Beattie

Book Overview

Documentary productions encompass remarkable representations of surprising realities. How do documentaries achieve their ends? What types of documentaries are there? What factors are implicated in their production? Such questions animate this engaging study. Documentary Screens is a comprehensive and critical study of the formal features and histories of central categories of documentary film and television. Among the categories examined are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033374117X
• ISBN13: 9780333741177
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"