Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary - Softcover

MacDonald, Kevin; Cousins, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571192025 ISBN 13: 9780571192021

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2003

Synopsis

Exploring the documentary film, this book traces its development from the first film shot by Louis Lumiere in 1895 to the last shaggy-dog story (Nick Broomfield's TV film, "Tracking Down Maggie"), and the commercial success of Steve James's three-hour saga, "Hoop Dreams". Mark Cousins directed the 1997 Edinburgh Film Festival. Kevin Macdonald, with whom he wrote this book, is the author of a biography of his own grandfather, "Emeric Pressburger: the Life and Death of a Screenwriter".

About this title

About the Author:

Kevin Macdonald is the Oscar-winning director of One Day in September, Into the Void, The Last King of Scotland, State of Play and Eagle of the Ninth. His biography of his grandfather, Emeric Pressburger: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter, is also published by Faber. Mark Cousins is a broadcaster, historian and film critic, the author of The Story of Film and Widescreen: Watching. Real. People. Elsewhere. He writes regularly for the film magazine Prospect and is an honorary lecturer in film, media and journalism at the University of Stirling.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0571192025
• ISBN 13: 9780571192021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404