Documentary Storytelling, 3rd edition: Creative Nonfiction on Screen
Paperback, 416 pages
Published: SEP-2010
ISBN 13: 978-0-240-81241-0
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
Also available on Kindle.
Since it was first published in 2003, Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the most important and cost-effective tool of nonfiction filmmaking: storytelling. Now in third edition, this best-selling book reveals how today’s top filmmakers bring the tools of drama to the world of nonfiction filmmaking without sacrificing the rigor and truthfulness that give documentaries their power. Whether your project is cinéma vérité or archival history, low budget or high, this book offers practical advice for every member of the production team at every stage of production, from research through shooting and editing. This third edition has been updated and improved, with new content throughout and interviews with Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), James Marsh (Man on Wire), Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) and others, in addition to previous interviews with filmmakers including Victoria Bruce & Karin Hayes (The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt), Ric Burns (New York), Nick Fraser (BBC Storyville), and Sam Pollard (When the Levees Broke).
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Published: SEP-2010
ISBN 13: 978-0-240-81241-0
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
Also available on Kindle.
Since it was first published in 2003, Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the most important and cost-effective tool of nonfiction filmmaking: storytelling. Now in third edition, this best-selling book reveals how today’s top filmmakers bring the tools of drama to the world of nonfiction filmmaking without sacrificing the rigor and truthfulness that give documentaries their power. Whether your project is cinéma vérité or archival history, low budget or high, this book offers practical advice for every member of the production team at every stage of production, from research through shooting and editing. This third edition has been updated and improved, with new content throughout and interviews with Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), James Marsh (Man on Wire), Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) and others, in addition to previous interviews with filmmakers including Victoria Bruce & Karin Hayes (The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt), Ric Burns (New York), Nick Fraser (BBC Storyville), and Sam Pollard (When the Levees Broke).
Click here to see the Table of Contents
Click here to read Reviews
Read filmmaker conversations from previous editions!
Click the names to open a PDF (Adobe Reader is needed). This material remains under copyright and is made available for personal use only.
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Jon Else (The Day after Trinity; Wonders are Many; Yosemite)
Susan Froemke (Lalee's Kin; Recording The Producers) Kenn Rabin (archivist for Milk, The Good German, Eyes on the Prize) Per Saari (Why He Skied) Onyekachi Wambu (filmmaker and journalist, African Foundation for Development) |
Foreign Editions
Documentary Storytelling, 2nd edition: Making Stronger and More Dramatic Nonfiction Films is available in Portuguese, Korean, and Chinese.
Documentary Storytelling, 3rd edition: Creative Nonfiction on Screen is available in Polish and is currently being translated into Korean.
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Documentary Storytelling, 3rd edition: Creative Nonfiction on Screen is available in Polish and is currently being translated into Korean.
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