{"product_id":"reclaiming-popular-documentary-hardback-9780253056870","title":"Reclaiming Popular Documentary (Hardback) 9780253056870","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReclaiming Popular Documentary\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristie Milliken (Author), Steve F. Anderson (Author), Ezra Winton (Contributions by), Patricia Aufderheide (Contributions by), Zoë Druick (Contributions by), Devon Coutts (Contributions by), Sabiha Ahmad Khan (Contributions by), Anthony Kinik (Contributions by), Michael Brendan Baker (Contributions by), Allison de Fren (Contributions by), Jonathan Kahana (Contributions by), Shilyh Warren (Contributions by), S. Topiary Landberg (Contributions by), Landon Palmer (Contributions by), Dylan Nelson (Contributions by), Alexandra Juhasz (Contributions by), Rick Prelinger (Contributions by), George S. Larke-Walsh (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253056870\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 July 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e406 pages, 49 b\u0026amp;w illus., 1 b\u0026amp;w table - 49 Illustrations, black and white - 1 Tables, black and white\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 3.1 cm, 0.803 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnderson and Milliken's book is no less than a groundbreaking study. Its exclusive focus on popular documentaries digs an alternative route next to the lane of popular fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e - Ohad Landesman, Tel Aviv University \u003cp\u003eMore and more often I encounter first-year students who arrive at college and tell me right away that they love documentaries—thanks, I believe, to the rising popularity of the form on streaming sites like Netflix. . . . They and many, many viewers are consuming just the kinds of popular documentary texts that this collection addresses.\u003c\/p\u003e - Jennifer Malkowski, author of Dying in Full Detail: Morality and Digital Documentary \u003cp\u003eMilliken and Anderson's excellent volume on \"popular\" documentary is both a long time coming and absolutely rooted in this moment in the history of documentary media.  The volume fills an almost shocking gap in scholarly writing on popular documentary—especially given the value documentary studies places on its connection with the political—and it does so as the stakes of shared knowledge of the world have never been higher.  Together, the chapters in this volume compellingly explore a range of documentary media forms while always interrogating what the \"popular\" actually entails.\u003c\/p\u003e - Josh Malitsky, author of A Companion to Documentary Film History \u003cp\u003eThis captivating collection which should certainly spur new debates in the field of documentary studies, hopefully with a new focus on the role of the popular and its implications.\u003c\/p\u003e - Lance Hayward, University of Warwick, UK (Critical Studies in Television)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe documentary has achieved rising popularity over the past two decades thanks to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. Despite this, documentary studies still tends to favor works that appeal primarily to specialists and scholars. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReclaiming Popular Documentary \u003c\/i\u003ereverses this long-standing tendency by showing that documentaries can be—and are—made for mainstream or commercial audiences. Editors Christie Milliken and Steve Anderson, who consider popular documentary to be a subfield of documentary studies, embrace an expanded definition of \u003ci\u003epopular\u003c\/i\u003e to acknowledge the many evolving forms of documentary, such as branded entertainment, fictional hybrids, and works with audience participation. Together, these essays address emerging documentary forms—including web-docs, virtual reality, immersive journalism, viral media, interactive docs, and video-on-demand—and offer the critical tools viewers need to analyze contemporary documentaries and consider how they are persuaded by and represented in documentary media. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy combining perspectives of scholars and makers, \u003ci\u003eReclaiming Popular Documentary \u003c\/i\u003ebrings new understandings and international perspectives to familiar texts using critical models that will engage media scholars and fans alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Popular Documentary Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e1. Pop Docs: The Work of Popular Documentary in the Age of Alternate Facts, by Christie Milliken and Steve F. Anderson\u003cbr\u003e2. Reclaiming the Popular for Public Interest Documentary, by Ezra Winton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Documentary Ecologies\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e3. Public Television's Role in the U.S. Documentary Ecology, by Patricia Aufderheide\u003cbr\u003e4. On (Not) Falling from the Sky: Fly-Over Global Documentary as Capitalist Body Genre, by Zoë Druick\u003cbr\u003e5. Accelerating Deceleration: Slow Violence and Time-Lapse Cinematography, by Devon Coutts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Short Forms and Web Practices\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e6. From Elegy to Kitsch: Spectacles of Epistephelia in \u003ci\u003eFood, Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e and Early Food Documentaries, by Sabiha Ahmad Khan\u003cbr\u003e7. Errol Morris, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Docmedia, and Op-Docs as Pop Docs, by Anthony Kinik\u003cbr\u003e8. Popular Music \u0026amp; Short Form Nonfiction: Is the Web a Forum for Documentary Innovation?, by Michael Brendan Baker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Auteurs, Politics and Popularity\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e9. From the Essay Film to the Video Essay: Between the Critical and the Popular, by Allison de Fren\u003cbr\u003e10. Errol Morris and the Ends of Irony, by Jonathan Kahana\u003cbr\u003e11. \u003ci\u003eVérite:\u003c\/i\u003e Lauren Greenfield and the Challenge of Feminist Documentary, by Shilyh Warren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Documentary Genres\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e12. \u003ci\u003eCitizenfour\u003c\/i\u003e and the Anti-Representational Turn: Aesthetics of Failure in the Information Age, by S. Topiary Landberg\u003cbr\u003e13. Of Kids and Sharks: Victims, Heroes and the Politics of Melodrama in Popular Documentary, by Christie Milliken\u003cbr\u003e14. Strategies of the Popular Music Documentary's Recovery Mode, by Landon Palmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Engaging Audiences\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e15. Assembling \u003ci\u003eNanking\u003c\/i\u003e: Archival Filmmaking in the Popular Historical Documentary, by Dylan Nelson\u003cbr\u003e16. Virality is Virility: Viral Media, Popularity and Violence, by Alexandra Juhasz\u003cbr\u003e17. Populism, Participation and Perpetual Incompletion: Performing an Urban History Commons, by Rick Prelinger\u003cbr\u003e18. The Armchair Juror: Audience Engagement in True Crime Documentaries, by George S. Larke-Walsh\u003cbr\u003e19. New (Old) Ontologies of Documentary, by Steve F. 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