From Grierson to the Docu-soap: Breaking the Boundaries

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John Izod, R. W. Kilborn, Matthew Hibberd
Indiana University Press, 2000 - 234 pages

Exploring a range of issues relating to the achievements of documentary film during past decades, this book also considers their prospects at the start of the new millennium. John Grierson's contribution to the theory of documentary is examined, focusing in particular on his influence on international developments. The way in which documentarians have resorted to a wide range of fictional techniques in what is usually categorized as nonfiction work is considered, and the significance of new technologies like the DVD and CD for further development of the documentary is addressed.

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Contents

Introduction
1
Richard Kilborn
4
Ina Bertand
23
Keyan G Tomaselli
47
Siān Reynolds
71
The Changing Culture of British Television
95
A critical assessment
111
Annette Hill
131
Vincent Campbell
145
Sylvia Harvey
159
Through the eyes of the Video Nation
173
Derek Paget
197
Michael Chanan
221
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