| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 393 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Pop Docs: The Work of Popular Documentary in the Age of Alternate Facts / Christie Milliken and Steve F. Anderson -- Part I. Popular Documentary Today -- 2. Reclaiming the Popular for Public Interest Documentary / Ezra Winton -- 3. Public Television's Role in the US Documentary Ecology / Patricia Aufderheide -- Part II. Documentary Ecologies -- 4. On (Not) Falling from the Sky: Fly-Over Global Documentary as Capitalist Body Genre / Zoë Druick -- 5. Accelerating Deceleration: Slow Violence and Time-Lapse Cinematography / Devon Coutts -- 6. From Elegy to Kitsch: Spectacles of Epistephilia in Food, Inc. and Early Food Documentaries / Sabiha Ahmad Khan -- Part III. Short Forms and Web Practices -- 7. Errol Morris, the New York Times, Docmedia, and Op-Docs as Pop Docs / Anthony Kinik -- 8. Popular Music and Short-Form Nonfiction: Is the Web a Forum for Documentary Innovation? / Michael Brendan Baker-- 9. From the Essay Film to the Video Essay: Between the Critical and the Popular / Allison de Fren -- Part IV. Auteurs, Politics, and Popularity -- 10. Errol Morris and the Ends of Irony / Jonathan Kahana -- 11. Vérité: Lauren Greenfield and the Challenge of Feminist Documentary / Shilyh Warren -- 12. Citizenfour and the Antirepresentational Turn: Aesthetics of Failure in the Information Age / S. Topiary Landberg -- Part V. Documentary Genres -- 13. Of Kids and Sharks: Victims, Heroes, and the Politics of Melodrama in Popular Documentary / Christie Milliken -- 14. Strategies of the Popular Music Documentary's Recovery Mode / Landon Palmer -- 15. Assembling Nanking: Archival Filmmaking in the Popular Historical Documentary / Dylan Nelson -- Part VI. Engaging Audiences -- 16. Virality Is Virility: Viral Media, Popularity, and Violence / Alexandra Juhasz -- 17. Populism, Participation, and Perpetual Incompletion: Performing an Urban History Commons / Rick Prelinger-- 18. The Armchair Juror: Audience Engagement in True Crime Documentaries / George S. Larke-Walsh -- 19. New (Old) Ontologies of Documentary / Steve F. Anderson |
| Summary |
"The documentary has achieved rising popularity over the past two decades, thanks to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. Despite this fact, documentary studies still tends to favor works that appeal primarily to specialists and scholars. Reclaiming Popular Documentary reverses this longstanding tendency by showing that documentaries can be-and are-made for mainstream or commercial audiences. Editors Christie Milliken and Steve Anderson, who consider popular documentary to be a subfield of documentary studies, embrace an expanded definition of popular to acknowledge documentary's many evolving forms, including branded entertainment, fictional hybrids, and works with audience participation. Together, these essays address emerging documentary forms-including web-docs, virtual reality, immersive journalism, viral media, interactive docs, and video-on-demand-and offer the critical tools that viewers need in order to analyze contemporary documentaries and consider how they are persuaded by and represented in documentary media. By combining perspectives of scholars and makers, Reclaiming Popular Documentary brings new understandings and international perspectives to familiar texts using critical models that will engage media scholars and fans alike"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 09, 2021) |
| Subject |
Documentary films -- History and criticism
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Motion picture audiences.
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Electronic books
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Documentary films.
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Motion picture audiences.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Film criticism.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Milliken, Christie, editor.
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Anderson, Steve F., editor.
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| LC no. |
2020057345 |
| ISBN |
025305690X |
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9780253056894 |
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0253056896 |
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9780253056900 |
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