Watching the World - Screen Documentary and Audiences

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Austin is Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Sussex Klappentext Watching the world extends the reach of documentary studies by investigating recent instances of screen documentary and the uses made of them by audiences Zusammenfassung Watching the world extends the reach of documentary studies by investigating recent instances of screen documentary and the uses made of them by audiences -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Continuity and change: the documentary 'boom'2 Seeing, feeling, knowing: Etre et Avoir3 'Suspense, fright, emotion, happy ending': documentary form and audience response to Touching the Void4 'The most confusing tears': home video, sex crime, and indeterminacy in Capturing the Friedmans 5 Approaching the invisible centre: middle-class identity and documentary film6 'Our planet reveals its secrets': wildlife documentaries on television7 Conclusion: Documentary world views

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Austin, Austin Thomas, Austin Thomas
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2012
• EAN: 9780719085581
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8558-1
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Documentary, Documentary films