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PUB DATE MAY 1, 2020: ARCHIVAL STORYTELLING, SECOND EDITION!
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Panel during research for Archival Storytelling. (LR) SCB, Kenn Rabin, Rick Prelinger, Stanley Nelson, Bill Nichols.
PUB DATE DECEMBER 2015: DOCUMENTARY STORYTELLING, FOURTH EDITION
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​"An extremely useful book for those who want to know more about how to make a documentary film is Sheila Curran Bernard's comprehensive Documentary Storytelling: Creative Nonfiction on Screen, 4th ed. (New York: Focal Press, 2016). It stresses the use of narrative techniques in documentary production, provides ​examples of treatments, and includes interviews with a number of important filmmakers."
       - Bill Nichols, Introduction to Documentary, 3rd ed., 2017                                                                                                                                          
First ed 2003; second 2007; third 2010. Fifth edition scheduled for 2021. Various editions also in Chinese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, with an Arabic edition due out in 2021.


OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
​School: The Story of American Public Education, edited by Sarah Mondale and Sarah Patton; narrative by Sheila Curran Bernard and Sarah Mondale, companion to the PBS series (Beacon Press, 2002); Korean edition 2016.

​The Ring of Truth: An Inquiry into How We Know What We Know, by Philip and Phylis Morrison, companion to the PBS series (Vintage, 1989) 

​Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges to Their Work by Patricia Aufderheide, Peter Jaszi, and Mridu Chandra, American University Center for Social Media, 2009 (Advisor)

​Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s, edited by Henry Hampton, Steve Fayer, and Sarah Flynn (Bantam, 1991)

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