Overview

Documentary Storytelling Reflection and Review draws on nearly fifty years of experience in documentary filmmaking, teaching, and writing. The book brings together approximately 150 documentary reviews-many revised and expanded-to examine how documentaries turn reality into narrative. Rather than offering evaluations or recommendations, the reviews focus on storytelling strategy, genre, structure, and perspective. Each film is examined in terms of how meaning is constructed and how ethical responsibility operates in nonfiction storytelling. The book emphasizes that documentary is never entirely objective and explores the critical distinction between advocacy and propaganda through transparency of intent. Organized by category, the book enables readers to approach documentary storytelling from multiple perspectives and across a wide range of subjects. Insights from decades of classroom discussion inform the writing, which remains accessible without becoming overly technical or theoretical. Written for documentary viewers, students, educators, and filmmakers, Documentary Storytelling Reflection and Review invites readers to an informed, reflective conversation about how documentaries work-and why that understanding matters.

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""A reflective look at how documentaries shape reality into narrative-through documentary reviews, humanities and production."" ""After decades of teaching documentary filmmaking and writing about nonfiction storytelling, I've gathered and revised many of those ideas into a new book.

Author Information

James R. (Jim) Martin is an Emmy award-winning Producer, Writer, and Director of Film, Television, Video, Multimedia, and Digital MediaProductions. Formerly Director of the Documentary FilmmakingCourse at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida, for 20 years.Professor Martin taught film production at Columbia College inChicago for 13 years, and Film Directing at the University of CentralFlorida. Project Director Comunity History Project 4 years - Chicago.Credits include two Emmy nominations and an Emmy Award fornationally aired PBS documentaries - Fired-up Public Housing is MyHome and Chicago Film Festival, Golden Plaque, and Best NetworkDocumentary, Emmy-nominated, and nationally aired, WrappedIn Steel. Editor, cameraman, producer, writer, and director of fictionand documentary films and videos.

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