Stories Make the World (eBook)

Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary

Stephen Most (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2017
288 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-577-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make the World, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of how documentary filmmakers and other storytellers come to understand their subjects and cast light on the world through their art. Drawing on the author's decades of experience behind the scenes of television and film documentaries, this is an indispensable account of the principles and paradoxes that attend the quest to represent reality truthfully.

Autor

Stephen Most is a writer and filmmaker. He has writing credits on four Academy Award “best documentary” nominees and five Emmy-winning films, including Wonders of Nature, Promises, and Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time. His book River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin was published in 2006.

Inhalt

Introduction

PART I: STORYTELLERS


Pedro Azabache

Eduardo Calderón

Erik H. Erikson

Ginetta Sagan

Hannah Arendt


PART II: BEGINNINGS AND ENDS


Achilles' Shield

Fire in the Cave

Theater of History


PART III: THE NATURAL WORLD


On the Interstellarnet

The View from the Sierra Madre

Upstream, Downstream


PART IV: THE HUMAN WORLD


Imagining Freedom

Land of Plenty

Fields of Centers

Through the Wall


PART V: THE ANTHROPOCENE


Baked Alaska

Sounds of a Changing Planet

The Rim of the World


Epilogue

Acknowledgements
Selected Filmography
Notes and Sources
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2017
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Film and Television Studies, Literary Studies • Film Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-78533-577-4 / 1785335774
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-577-8 / 9781785335778