Documentary Media: History, Theory, Practice

"In a digital moment where both the democratizing and totalitarian possibilities of media are unprecedented, the need for complex, ethical, and imaginative documentary media--for you, the reader of this book to think, question, and create--is vital. Whether you are an aspiring or seasoned practitioner, an activist or community leader, a student or scholar, or simply a curious audience member, author Broderick Fox opens up documentary media, its changing forms, and diversifying social functions to readers in a manner that is at once rigorous, absorbing, and practical. This new edition updates and further explores the various histories, ideas, and cultural debates that surround and shape documentary practice today. Each chapter engages readers by challenging traditional assumptions, posing critical and creative questions, and offering up innovative historical and contemporary examples. Additionally, each chapter closes with an "Into Practice" section that provides analysis and development exercises and hands-on projects that will assist you in generating a full project prospectus, promotional trailer, and web presence for your own documentary."--Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Reimagining Documentary -- Reality? -- Objectivity? -- Truth? -- The Subject of Documentary -- The â#x80;#x9C;Gapâ#x80;#x9D; Between Subject and Maker -- Countering Ethnography -- Pushing Documentary Form and Function -- Documentary, Power, and the Public Sphere -- Into Practice -- 2 A Brief History of Documentary: Movements and Modes -- Robert Flaherty: Character and Story Development -- Foregrounding Form: The Reflexive Mode -- Soviet Montage

Found Footage, Remix, and Culture JammingReflexive Moments -- Ways of Seeing: Avant-Gardes and the Poetic Mode -- Documentary as Hammer: The Expository Mode -- Direct Cinema: The Observational Mode -- Cinéma Vérité: The Participatory Mode -- The Emergence of Video: Taking on TV & Top-Down Conglomerate Media -- Body as Conduit: The Performative Mode -- Feminist Performativity -- Queer Performativity -- Broader Use of the Performative Mode -- Performing Self: The Autobiographical Mode -- Third-Wave Feminism and Autobiography

Gay Rights Media and Queer AutobiographyTrying Out Reality: The Essayistic Mode -- New Forms of Experience: The Interactive Mod…