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"Documentaries such as Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman's Born into Brothels , Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 , Jeffrey Blitz's Spellbound , along with March of the Penguins and An Inconvenient Truth have achieved critical as well as popular success. Although nonfiction film may have captured imaginations, many viewers enter and leave theaters with a nanve concept of """"""""""""""""truth"""""""""""""""" and """"""""""""""""reality""""""""""""""""-for them, documentaries are information sources. But is truth or reality readily available, easily acquired, or undisputed? Or do documentaries convey illusions of truth and reality? What aesthetic means are used to build these illusions? A documentary's sounds and images are always the product of selection and choice, and often underscore points the filmmaker wishes to make. Crafting Truth illuminates the ways these films tell their stories; how they use the camera, editing, sound, and performance; what rhetorical devices they employ; and what the theoretical, practical, and ethical implications of these choices are. Complex documentary concepts are presented through easily accessible language, images, and a discussion of a wide range of films and videos to encourage new ways of thinking about and seeing nonfiction film."

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Author:   Louise Spence ,  Vinicius Navarro
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9780813549026

ISBN 10:   0813549027
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   30 January 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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A novel and illuminating introduction to key concepts in documentary. The distinctive cast to the book makes it an extremely welcome contribution to the field. <br>Bill Nichols, author of Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies

Crafting Truth addresses all the main issues involved in studying the documentary, cleverly illustrated by recent examples while not forgetting necessary consideration of the canon--a very valuable account. --Brian Winston University of Lincoln, UK (07/26/2010)

Author Information

LOUISE SPENCE is a professor of cinema studies at Kadir Has University in Istanbul and the coauthor of the award-winning Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences (Rutgers University Press). VINICIUS NAVARRO is an assistant professor of film studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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