Documentary Display: Re-Viewing Nonfiction Film and Video

Keith Beattie

December, 2008
Paper, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-1-905674-72-5
Wallflower Press
$29.50

Cloth, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-1-905674-73-2
$90.00

"Documentary has too often been regarded as the sober reverse-side of fiction in cinema: grey, instructional, wedded to ponderous, old-fashioned notions of realism. Keith Beattie's exciting Documentary Display throws the question of documentary open—both in its production and its reception—and, at the same time, re-opens our eyes to its very diverse, frequently spectacular history ... This book re-defines a cinematic genre, and in the process challenges us to embrace the sensual, poetic and thoroughly entertaining aspects of non-fiction film." — Adrian Martin, Senior Research Fellow, Monash University, Melbourne

Related Subjects

• Film

About the Author

Keith Beattie is a member of the Faculty of Arts of Deakin University, Melbourne.

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