Confronting Reality: Introduction To Tv Documentary, An

Provides a guide and an introduction to television documentary. It examines questions such as "What is documentary?", and looks at the ways in which documentaries are produced and how they are received. Table of Contents: Part 1 Documentary debates: mapping out the terrain - what is documentary?; how real can you get? realism and documentary. Part 2 The documentary text: shaping the real - modes of documentary; tackling the text - documentary analyses. Part 3 Fact, fiction and drama: telling a story - fact, fiction and documentary; making a drama out of a crisis - the drama documentary and related forms. Part 4 Documentary production and reception: 'just do it our way!' - institutional control and production economics; how do they do it? - aspects of documentary production; is there anybody out there? - audiences for documentary.