Examines the ideas and principles that guide the art of documentary storytelling. About the world as well as about nonfiction film. It explores subjects ranging from cosmology to architecture, environmental history to struggles for human rights. Looks at the process of transforming various subjects into stories for documentary film viewers. Regards storytelling as a fundamental human ability and considers nonfiction film in relation to other representative forms, including prehistoric cave art, theater, and oral history.
Examines the ideas and principles that guide the art of documentary storytelling. About the world as well as about nonfiction film. It explores subjects ranging from cosmology to architecture, environmental history to struggles for human rights. Looks at the process of transforming various subjects into stories for documentary film viewers. Regards storytelling as a fundamental human ability and considers nonfiction film in relation to other representative forms, including prehistoric cave art, theater, and oral history.
Stephen Most is a writer and filmmaker. He has writing credits on four Academy Award "best documentary" nominees and five Emmy-winning films, including Wonders of Nature, Promises, and Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time. His book River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin was published in 2006.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction PART I: STORYTELLERS * Pedro Azabache * Eduardo Calderón * Erik H. Erikson * Ginetta Sagan * Hannah Arendt PART II: BEGINNINGS AND ENDS * Achilles' Shield * Fire in the Cave * Theater of History PART III: THE NATURAL WORLD * On the Interstellarnet * The View from the Sierra Madre * Upstream, Downstream PART IV: THE HUMAN WORLD * Imagining Freedom * Land of Plenty * Fields of Centers * Through the Wall PART V: THE ANTHROPOCENE * Baked Alaska * Sounds of a Changing Planet * The Rim of the World Epilogue Acknowledgements Selected Filmography Notes and Sources Index
Introduction PART I: STORYTELLERS * Pedro Azabache * Eduardo Calderón * Erik H. Erikson * Ginetta Sagan * Hannah Arendt PART II: BEGINNINGS AND ENDS * Achilles' Shield * Fire in the Cave * Theater of History PART III: THE NATURAL WORLD * On the Interstellarnet * The View from the Sierra Madre * Upstream, Downstream PART IV: THE HUMAN WORLD * Imagining Freedom * Land of Plenty * Fields of Centers * Through the Wall PART V: THE ANTHROPOCENE * Baked Alaska * Sounds of a Changing Planet * The Rim of the World Epilogue Acknowledgements Selected Filmography Notes and Sources Index
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