Watching the world
Subtitle: screen documentary and audiences
By: Thomas Austin.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780719076893
Subjects: Documentary films -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; Documentary films -- United States -- History and criticism; Documentary television programs -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; Documentary television programs -- United States -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Continuity and change : the documentary 'boom'; title: Seeing, feeling, knowing : Entre et avoir; title: 'Suspense, fright, emotion, happy ending' : documentary form and audience response to Touching the void; title: 'The most confusing tears' : home video, sex crime and indeterminacy in Capturing the Friedmans; title: Approaching the invisible centre : middle-class identity and documentary film; title: 'Our planet reveals its secrets' : wildlife documentaries on television; title: Conclusion : documentary world views.