The Intellect Handbook of Documentary - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 183595068X ISBN 13: 9781835950685

Publisher: Intellect Books, 2025

Synopsis

The Handbook of Documentary is an important go-to resource for practitioners, scholars and students in this burgeoning field. It tackles key topics and debates – from the role of documentary in post-truth culture to the rise of streaming giants (and the implications for national documentary cultures) and the shifting (increasingly hybrid) practices of documentary activism and the professionalization of impact. Featuring work by key figures in international documentary scholarship and talented emerging scholars, the Handbook is a landmark publication for documentary studies in the twenty-first century.

The Handbook is broad in its scope, incorporating historical, theoretical, empirical, and practical scholarship. It is organized around ten key themes/debates: What and where is documentary (studies)?; Documentary in an Age of epistemic uncertainty; Documentary histories; Documentary and the Archive; Audio/Visualities; Documentary Relationalities; Beyond the Anthropocene?; Digital/documentary practices; Documentary and (new) politics?; A golden age? Documentary distribution and funding. Importantly, the Handbook challenges the dominance of Western voices in documentary scholarship, incorporating the voices and practices of practitioners from the Global South.

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About the Author

Kate Nash is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has published widely in the areas of documentary ethics, interactive documentary and on the relationship between documentary and politics. Her books include New Documentary Ecologies (2014 with Craig Hight and Catherine Summerhayes) and Interactive Documentary: Theory and Debate (2020). She is Co-Editor (with Craig Hight) of Studies in Documentary Film.

Deane Williams is Associate Professor of Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. From 2007-2017 he was editor of the journal Studies in Documentary Film, and his books include Australian Post-War Documentary Film: An Arc of Mirrors (2008), Michael Winterbottom (with Brian McFarlane, 2009), the three-volume Australian Film Theory and Criticism (co-edited with Noel King and Constantine Verevis, 2013–2017), The Cinema of Sean Penn: In and Out of Place (2016) and (with Julia Vassilieva) editor of Beyond the Essay Film: Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology (2021).

Edition details

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 183595068X
• ISBN 13: 9781835950685
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 518
• Editor: Nash Prof. Kate, Williams Deane