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Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging animals epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide will take listeners along the diverse paths of documentary history and graphs the lively, often brutal debates among filmmakers and scholars about the best ways to symbolize reality also to inform the truths worth telling. Beginning with an overview of the central issues of documentary filmmaking - its explanations and purposes, its varieties and founders - Aufderheide focuses on many of its key subgenres, including general population affairs films, authorities propaganda (particularly the works produced during World War II), historical documentaries, and mother nature motion pictures. Her thematic strategy allows listeners to enter the subject matter through the sorts of motion pictures that first enticed them to documentaries, and it enables her to make cable connections between eras, as well as exposing the ongoing mother nature of documentary's key controversies regarding objectivity, advocacy, and bias. Interwoven throughout are discussions of the moral and practical concerns that arise with every part of documentary production. Pulling on the author's four generations of experience as a film scholar and critic, this audiobook is the perfect intro not only for teachers and students but also for all thoughtful filmgoers and for individuals who aspire to make documentaries themselves.
