
Documentary Storytelling, 5th edition
To be published July 8, 2022!
ISBN: 9781032267296
Imprint: Focal Press/Routledge/Taylor & Francis
In this new edition, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author Sheila Curran Bernard offers:
To be published July 8, 2022!
ISBN: 9781032267296
Imprint: Focal Press/Routledge/Taylor & Francis
In this new edition, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author Sheila Curran Bernard offers:
- a closer look at the way ethical nonfiction filmmakers take creative, authorial leaps while also remaining transparent with audiences;
- new tools for understanding how documentaries are structured, how they may rearrange time for storytelling effect, and how a simple narrative throughline can convey complexity without being a conventional “hero’s journey“;
- new conversations with filmmakers and educators including Dawn Porter, Madison Hamburg, Tracy Heather Strain, June Cross, Heidi Gronauer, and Julie Casper Roth, and another look at conversations with Stanley Nelson and Orlando von Einsiedel.
August 2021: Bernard receives NEH Public Scholar Award for “Bring Judgment Day”: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, a book now under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Project Description: Research and writing of a book about blues performer Huddie Ledbetter (1889–1949), his interactions with music collectors John A. and Alan Lomax, and the racial and labor politics of the post-Reconstruction era. |
September 2021: The first six hours (only) of the fourteen-hour series Eyes on the Prize are streaming on HBO Max,

PBS Video seems to be no longer selling the 7 DVD package for $250, representing the entire series. They are still selling hours 1-6 (1954-1965), which cover only the southern movement during those years.
Additional resources, including program transcripts for all 14 hours, can be found at the PBS American Experience website, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/
Other resources, including unedited interview transcripts and (in some cases, video), can be found at the Henry Hampton Collection, Washington State University, http://libguides.wustl.edu/hampton.
Additional resources, including program transcripts for all 14 hours, can be found at the PBS American Experience website, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/
Other resources, including unedited interview transcripts and (in some cases, video), can be found at the Henry Hampton Collection, Washington State University, http://libguides.wustl.edu/hampton.
Upcoming, July 2022!: Arabic translation of Documentary Storytelling, 4th edition. Details to come.
June 2021: Japanese translation of Documentary Storytelling, 4th edition published by Filmart-Sha Co., Lt. (Tokyo)
See https://books.rakuten.co.jp/rb/16417519/ |
Online resources available for teaching Slavery by Another Name, including 20-minute classroom version

Twin Cities Public Television and partners have created Slavery by Another Name Digital Storytelling, a media-making curriculum that includes a shorter (20-minutes) online version of the film.
The film is no longer streaming on PBS, but many libraries have access to Kanopy and may have licensed it for streaming.
The film is no longer streaming on PBS, but many libraries have access to Kanopy and may have licensed it for streaming.
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