Documentary Display: Re-Viewing Nonfiction Film and Video

by James Hogg, Keith Beattie, James Leggott

Not all documentary films and videos are sober depictions of the real world. Documentary representations can present expressive, entertaining and spectacular images. This book examines such innovative approaches as they occur within the process of "documentary display"--a practice which emphasizes the visual attractions of documentary representation. Works of documentary display explore modes of exhibitionistic "showing" in which sensation is frequently...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905674724
• ISBN13: 9781905674725
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher