Bibliograph

American documentary filmmaking in the digital age, depictions of war in Burns, Moore, and Morris, Lucia Ricciardelli

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American documentary filmmaking in the digital age, depictions of war in Burns, Moore, and Morris, Lucia Ricciardelli

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American documentary filmmaking in the digital age

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Lucia Ricciardelli

Series statement

Routledge advances in film studies, 35

Sub title

depictions of war in Burns, Moore, and Morris

Table Of Contents

The realist documentary tradition in the postmodern age. Introduction: the postmodern attack on historicism, nationalism, rationalism, and realism -- Realist documentary: who, what, when, where, why, and how? -- The demise of the academic critique of realism: phenomenological approaches in documentary studies scholarship -- Audiovisual historical narration in the age of digitization. The impact of digital technology on documentary filmmaking -- From "Nanook of the north" to social-networking websites: shaping historical consciousness in the digital age -- American documentary filmmaking in the postmodern age. Ken Burns: the master of consensus in the age of dissent -- Michael Moore: the subjective/objective dichotomy -- Errol Morris: "Interrotroning" the past for the present -- Conclusion: the demise of American realist documentary filmmaking in the digital age?

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