Directing the Documentary, 7th Edition

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DOCUMENTARIES AND FILM LANGUAGE

Stories invite us to experience other people’s sensibilities, predicaments, and outlooks. They help us experience our affinities and antipathies, face our inner contradictions and resistances, and decide whom we belong with and why. They reach us by word of mouth, through the printed pages of journalism and literature, via the music of song, and through the complexity of the screen. Each medium has its own language and films began from simple moving pictures in the 1890s. By the early 20th century, entertainers were experimenting intensively with stories, acting, and silent film language. Most importantly, they were learning from each other, and judged the success of each new technique from audience ...