Documentary Media

Name: Documentary Media
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138677562
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History, Theory, Practice

By Broderick Fox

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Documentary Media by Broderick Fox explores the evolving landscape of documentary media in an age where digital technology expands both opportunities and challenges. The book provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to documentary's histories, ethical considerations, and social roles. Each chapter combines critical insights with practical exercises designed to inspire and equip readers to create their own documentary projects, including planning, promotion, and digital presence.
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This book is ideal for aspiring and experienced documentary practitioners, activists, community leaders, students, scholars, and anyone interested in understanding and engaging with documentary media in contemporary society.

In a digital moment where both the democratizing and totalitarian possibilities of media are unprecedented, the need for complex, ethical, and imaginative documentary media is vital. Documentary Media opens up documentary media, its changing forms and broad social functions to readers in a manner that is at once rigorous, absorbing, and practical.

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In a digital moment where both the democratising and totalitarian possibilities of media are unprecedented, the need for complex, ethical, and imaginative documentary media—for you, the reader of this book to think, question, and create—is vital.

Whether you are an aspiring or seasoned practitioner, an activist or community leader, a student or scholar, or simply a curious audience member, author Broderick Fox opens up documentary media, its changing forms, and diversifying social functions to readers in a manner that is at once rigorous, absorbing, and practical. This new edition updates and further explores the various histories, ideas, and cultural debates that surround and shape documentary practice today.

Each chapter engages readers by challenging traditional assumptions, posing critical and creative questions, and offering up innovative historical and contemporary examples. Additionally, each chapter closes with an "Into Practice" section that provides analysis and development exercises and hands-on projects that will assist you in generating a full project prospectus, promotional trailer, and web presence for your own documentary.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138677562

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 October 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 7 Line drawings, black and white; 82 Halftones, black and white; 89 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education

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Width: 191.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 949g

Pages: 364

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About the Author

Broderick Fox is a media practitioner and scholar whose work explores the democratizing potentials of digital media technologies and distribution platforms, to engage challenging perspectives and subject matters traditionally excised from mainstream media. His award-winning documentaries, including recent titles The Skin I'm In and Zen & the Art of Dying, are available globally on a number of platforms including the academic streaming service Kanopy. Fox is a professor in the Media Arts & Culture Department at Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he teaches courses in both theory and production.

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