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Stories Make the World : Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary / Stephen Most.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781785335754
  • 9781785335778
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.1/8
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE / Storytellers -- Pedro Azabache -- Eduardo Calderón -- Erik H. Erikson -- Ginetta Sagan -- Hannah Arendt -- PART TWO / Beginnings and Ends -- Achilles’ Shield -- Fire in the Cave -- Theater of Hist -- PART THREE / The Natural World -- On the Interstellarnet -- The View from the Sierra Madre -- Upstream, Downstream -- PART FOUR / The Human World -- Imagining Freedom -- Land of Plenty -- Fields of Centers -- Through the Wall -- PART FIVE / The Anthropocene -- Baked Alaska -- Sounds of a Changing Planet -- The Rim of the World -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Filmography -- Notes and Sources -- Index
Summary: Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make the World, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of how documentary filmmakers and other storytellers come to understand their subjects and cast light on the world through their art. Drawing on the author’s decades of experience behind the scenes of television and film documentaries, this is an indispensable account of the principles and paradoxes that attend the quest to represent reality truthfully.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE / Storytellers -- Pedro Azabache -- Eduardo Calderón -- Erik H. Erikson -- Ginetta Sagan -- Hannah Arendt -- PART TWO / Beginnings and Ends -- Achilles’ Shield -- Fire in the Cave -- Theater of Hist -- PART THREE / The Natural World -- On the Interstellarnet -- The View from the Sierra Madre -- Upstream, Downstream -- PART FOUR / The Human World -- Imagining Freedom -- Land of Plenty -- Fields of Centers -- Through the Wall -- PART FIVE / The Anthropocene -- Baked Alaska -- Sounds of a Changing Planet -- The Rim of the World -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Filmography -- Notes and Sources -- Index

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Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make the World, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of how documentary filmmakers and other storytellers come to understand their subjects and cast light on the world through their art. Drawing on the author’s decades of experience behind the scenes of television and film documentaries, this is an indispensable account of the principles and paradoxes that attend the quest to represent reality truthfully.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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