The Intellect Handbook of Documentary - by Kate Prof Nash & Deane Williams (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Featuring work by key figures in international documentary scholarship and talented emerging scholars, the Handbook is a landmark publication for documentary studies in the 21st century. It tackles key topics and debates and the shifting practices of documentary activism and the professionalization of impact. 24 b&w illus.

Chapter One: Handbook of Documentary is available to read for free here

Part of the Intellect Handbooks collection.

Review Quotes

'The Intellect Handbook of Documentary is a welcome, comprehensive and substantial guide to the subject, incorporating chapters by leading authors on the subject, and covering many areas of historical and topical interest. The editors have a long and distinguished association with the field, and the Handbook will add to that.'

About the Author

Kate Nash is professor of media and communication at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of New Documentary Ecologies (with Craig Hight and Catherine Summerhayes) and Interactive Documentary: Theory and Debate. She is also coeditor of Studies in Documentary Film. Deane Williams is associate professor of film and screen studies at Monash University, Melbourne. He is the author of Australian Post-War Documentary Film: An Arc of Mirrors, Michael Winterbottom (with Brian McFarlane), the three-volume Australian Film Theory and Criticism (co-edited with Noel King and Constantine Verevis), The Cinema of Sean Penn: In and Out of Place, and Essay Film: Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology (with Julia Vassilieva).