The Act of Documenting

Documentary Film in the 21st Century

Brian Winston, Dr Gail Vanstone, Wang Chi (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-0916-8 (ISBN)

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Documentary has never attracted such audiences, never been produced with such ease from so many corners of the globe, never embraced such variety of expression. The very distinctions between the filmed, the filmer and the spectator are being dissolved. The Act of Documenting addresses what this means for documentary’s 21st century position as a genus in the “class” cinema; for its foundations as, primarily, a scientistic, eurocentric and patriarchal discourse; for its future in a world where assumptions of photographic image integrity cannot be sustained. Unpacked are distinctions between performance and performativy and between different levels of interaction, linearity and hypertextuality, engagement and impact, ethics and conditions of reception. Winston, Vanstone and Wang Chi explore and celebrate documentary's potentials in the digital age.

Brian Winston is the Lincoln Professor at the University of Lincoln, UK. He has held senior academic posts at universities both in the UK and the USA and is a visiting professor at Beijing Normal University. In 1985, he won an Emmy for documentary script-writing and he is the editor of The Documentary Film Book. Gail Vanstone is the coordinator of the Culture & Expression program at York University, Canada. She is concerned with the affordances of new technology for the documentary and women’s film production. She is the author of D is for Daring, a history of Studio D the feminist film unit at Canada’s National Film Board. Wang Chi is a lecturer at the Communication University of China and a doctoral student at the University of Lincoln, UK. He has published widely on the documentary in Chinese, including the edited volumes (with Brian Winston) Documenting and Methods (2014).

AN AGENDA

1. “A Much Hailed Triumph”
2. “The Shakiest of Foundations”
3. The Act of Documenting

PART ONE: DIGITAL POTENTIALS

1. “A Walk in the Woods”
Image:
AUTHENTICITY: Indexing -- Evidence
TRUST: Manipulation -- Judgment
SAVVY: Inferences -- Probability

2. “A breath of fresh air for documentary”
Kit:
CONTRADICTION: Digitization -- Standards
GLOBALIZATIONi: Proliferation-- Resistance

3. “Life as narrativized”
Story:
INTERPASSIVITY: Navigation -- Feedback -- Intervention
HOMO NARRANS: Texts -- Stories
SCRIPTRIX NARRANS: Challenge --Paths

PART TWO: ACTUAL EFFECTS….

…. on THE FILMED

4. “To thine own self be true”
Performing:
APPEARING: Distrust -- Presentational Acting -- Representational Being
BEHAVING: Performativity -- Casting

5. “Giving Voice”
Co-creating:
CONTROL: Engagement -- Empowerment
CHANGE: Facilitating -- Embedding

…. on THE FILMER

6. “To Make Space For The Un-Thought”
Subjectivities:
GENDER: Narcissism -- Auto/Biography
EMANCIPATION: Exclusions -- “Facts”

7. “Nous somme dans le bain”/”We are implicated”
Care:
HARM: Involvement -- Consequences
RIGHTS: Protocols -- Control

…. on THE SPECTATOR

8. "You have to make up your own mind”
Perception:
EXPECTATIONS: Truth -- Omission
ASSUMPTONS: Wow! -- Ostranenie

9. “When the lights go up” -- Reception
OUTCOMES: Impact -- Engagement -- Research
CONDITIONS: Autonomy -- Hazards

MINUTES: THE ACT OF DOCUMENTING
Considerations

Erscheinungsdatum	05.02.2017
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	558 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	1-5013-0916-1 / 1501309161
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-0916-8 / 9781501309168
Zustand	Neuware