The Documentary Handbook takes a thematic approach to documentary, including chapters for the many myriad forms we watch today - from the cinematic releases of Michael Moore to the low budget internet efforts like Video Nation, from ‘shock docs’ to reality television. The Documentary Handbook is a critical introduction to the documentary film, its theory and changing practices. The bookcharts the evolution of documentary from screen art to core television genre,its metamorphosis into many different types of factual TV programme and its current emergence in forms of new media. It analyses those pathways and the transformation of means of production through economic, technical and editorial changes. The Documentary Handbook explains the documentary process, skills and job specifications for everyone from industry entrants to senior personnel, and shows how the industrial evolution of television has relocated the powers and principles of decision-making. Through the use of professional Expert Briefings it gives practical pointers about programme-making, from research, developing and pitching programme ideas to their production and delivery through a fast-evolving multi-platform universe.
- ISBN: 978-0-415-43402-7
- Editorial: Routledge
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 422
- Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés