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Author:   Broderick Fox (Occidental College, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   0.949kg
ISBN:  

9781138677562

ISBN 10:   1138677566
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   13 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1 - Reimagining Documentary Chapter 2 - A Brief History of Documentary: Movements and Modes Chapter 3 – Content, Rhetoric, Structure Chapter 4 - Style: Audiovisualizing the Documentary Chapter 5 - Documentary Ethics: Focusing Your Professional Gaze Chapter 6 - Capturing Reality: Production Strategies Chapter 7 - Shaping Reality: The Postproduction Process Chapter 8 - From Media to Movement: Distribution, Outreach, and Engagement Appendices Appendix A - Project 1: Camera-less Documentary Appendix B - Project 2: Exploring Modes of Representation Appendix C - Project 3: Gaining Perspective Appendix D - Project 4: Editing a Teaser and Trailer Appendix E - Project 5: Establishing a Web Presence Appendix F - Exercise: Camera Concepts Appendix G - Exercise: Sound Decisions Appendix H - Quick Reference: Documentary Modes Appendix I - Quick Reference: Sample Forms and Guidelines Appendix J - Quick Reference: Prospectus Checklist and Guidelines Appendix K - Quick Reference: Media Resource List

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With graceful and accessible prose, deep expertise and vivid examples, Broderick Fox has leaped across the divide between film studies and film production courses. Makers of all kinds of audio-visual media will benefit from this clear, historically grounded, critically and ethically informed work. Step by step through the production process, Fox exposes the deeper questions that face anyone trying to say something meaningful about something that really happened. --Patricia Aufderheide, American University, USA

With graceful and accessible prose, deep expertise and vivid examples, Broderick Fox has leaped across the divide between film studies and film production courses. Makers of all kinds of audio-visual media will benefit from this clear, historically grounded, critically and ethically informed work. Step by step through the production process, Fox exposes the deeper questions that face anyone trying to say something meaningful about something that really happened. --Patricia Aufderheide, American University, USA

Author Information

Broderick Fox is a media practitioner and scholar whose work explores the democratizing potentials of digital media technologies and distribution platforms, to engage challenging perspectives and subject matters traditionally excised from mainstream media. His award-winning documentaries, including recent titles The Skin I'm In and Zen & the Art of Dying, are available globally on a number of platforms including the academic streaming service Kanopy. Fox is a professor in the Media Arts & Culture Department at Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he teaches courses in both theory and production.

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