Author Archive for: ‘Peter Hughes’
The Art of Record : A Critical Introduction to Documentary – No Other Way to Tell it: Dramadoc/docudrama on Television – Documentary Film Classics
John Corner, The Art of Record : A Critical Introduction to Documentary, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-7190-4687-4 212 pp Derek Paget, No Other Way to Tell it: Dramadoc/docudrama on Television, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1998. ISBN 0 7190 4533 9 213 pp William Rothman, Documentary Film Classics, New York, Cambrige University Press, 1997. ISBN 521456819 218 pp Uploaded 1 July 1999 …
Read MoreNevermind the bandwidth – feel the quality
In August 1999 I presented a paper at the Infog 99 conference in Melbourne, which was based on our experience to that point in time, of publishing Screening the Past. The conference was an optimistic attempt to bring together librarians, archivists, media scholars, and educators, to consider the implications of new cultural technologies for all our fields, including the possibilities of …
Read MoreThe End of Life on Earth?: Discourses of Risk in Natural History Documentaries
Abstract An implicit theme in natural history documentaries for decades has been the likely impact of such human activities as population growth, land clearing, mining, pesticide usage, and pollution on animal species, leading potentially to the extinction of species. In more recent times the risk of extinction has shifted so that the focus is now on humans and the future …
Read MoreIssue 13 – Editorial
Women, Autobiography and New Media There is a growing literature which deals with the putative “death of the journal”[1] , with the increasing cost of print based journals for individual subscribers and libraries, with the possibility of new forms of document distribution online, and with the perils and costs of such publication [2] . Harnad argues for a system in which …
Read MoreInnovation or audience: the choice for documentary? An examination of the Australian Documentary Fellowship Scheme, 1984 -1989
Uploaded 15 Septmber 1998 Background to the Scheme Film and (later) television production have been important sites for debates about the “Australian experience” for one hundred years. That period has seen regular attempts by governments, and their cultural agencies, to intervene in the developing industries of cultural production, of which the Documentary Fellowship Scheme was a particularly interesting example. While …
Read MoreIssue 14 – Editorial
While this issue does not have a theme it does, by coincidence, have a number of articles and reviews which deal with archives (Edmondson and Verhoeff) and with documentary film and television. Debate about archives has been on the cultural agenda in recent years. Issues 11.4 and 12.2 of the journal History of the Human Sciences were special issues on archives with …
Read MoreFaking It: Mock-documentary and the Subversion of Factuality
Jane Roscoe and Craig Hight, Faking It: Mock-documentary and the Subversion of Factuality. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2001. ISBN: 0 7190 5641 1 Au$43.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Footprint Books) Although I have always been a big fan of This is Spinal Tap (USA, 1984) The Falls (Britain, 1980), and such television series as The Games (Australia, 1998) and People Like Us (Britain, 1999), I have …
Read MoreDocumentary Screens
Keith Beattie, Documentary Screens Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN: 0 333 74117 X 288pp $A 53.00 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Palgrave) One of the ironies of this “post documentary” era (to use a designation coined by John Corner) has been the significant increase in public awareness of documentary. Evidence for this is provided by the very large cinema audiences …
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