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The Documentary Handbook

The Documentary Handbook

The Documentary Handbook Paperback / softback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Peter Lee-Wright

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Paperback / softback. New. From the cinematic releases of Michael Moore to the low-budget "Video Nation" and from educational works to "Big Brother", this handbook includes interviews, case studies and illustrations and presents an introduction to the documentary film, its theory and changing practices.
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  • Title The Documentary Handbook
  • Author Peter Lee-Wright
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Publication date 2009-12-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780415434027
  • ISBN 9780415434027 / 0415434025
  • Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.88 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Film
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Documentary films - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009022687
  • Dewey Decimal Code 070.18
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

'The Documentary Handbook is mandatory reading for those who want a critical understanding of the place of factual formats in today's exploding television and media industry, as well as expert guidance in complex craft skills in order to fully participate. The practical advice and wisdom here is second to none.' - Tony Steyger, Principal Lecturer, Southampton Solent University, UK

The Documentary Handbook is a critical introduction to the documentary film, its theory and changing practices. The book charts the evolution of documentary from screen art to core television genre, its metamorphosis into many different types of factual TV programme and its current emergence in forms of new media. It analyses those pathways and the transformation of means of production through economic, technical and editorial changes.

The Documentary Handbook explains the documentary process, skills and job specifications for everyone from industry entrants to senior personnel, and shows how the industrial evolution of television has relocated the powers and principles of decision-making. Through the use of professional Expert Briefings it gives practical pointers about programme-making, from research, developing and pitching programme ideas to their production and delivery through a fast-evolving multi-platform universe.

About the author

Peter Lee-Wright is a documentary film-maker with 30 years' experience working for the BBC and Channel 4. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Media & Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His most recent writing - critical overviews of sports documentary and trade union documentary - was published in Routledge's Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film (2005).

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