Crafting Truth: Documentary Form and Meaning

by Louise Spence, Vinicius Navarro, Professor Louise Spence

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813549035
• ISBN13: 9780813549033
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher