Open Space New Media Documentary - A Toolkit for Theory and Practice

List of contents

1. Why Open Space? 2. Small Spaces 3. Designing Encounters 4. Polyphonic Collaborations 5. Inviting Spaces 6. Working Principles

About the author

Patricia R. Zimmermann is professor of screen studies at Ithaca College, USA. Her books include The Flaherty: Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema (2017); Open Space: Openings, Closings, and Thresholds of Independent Public Media (2016); Thinking Through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places (2015), and many others.

Helen De Michiel is a filmmaker, writer, and community designer based in Berkeley, California. Her documentary projects include the work-in-progress Knocking on Doors, Lunch Love Community (2015), The Gender Chip Project (2004), Turn Here Sweet Corn (1990), the dramatic feature Tarantella (1994), and many other shorts and media installations.

Summary

Open Space New Media Documentary examines an emerging and significant area of documentary practice in the twenty-first century: community-based new media documentary projects that move across platforms and utilize participatory modalities.

Additional text

'Open Space New Media Documentary offers an essential "toolkit" for future documentary theory and practice. This inspirational book provides a vision of new approaches to nonfiction as a vital part of an expanding digital public sphere with a notion of "community" that runs from physical encounters to screen interactions and interventions.' --Gina Marchetti, University of Hong Kong

Product details

• Authors: Helen de Michiel, Patricia R. Zimmermann, Patricia R. (Ithaca College Zimmermann, Patricia R. De Michiel Zimmermann, Zimmermann Patricia R.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367887667
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88766-7
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Routledge Studies in Media Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Documentary films, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, Film history, theory or criticism, Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills