Truth or Dare (Paperback)

Gail Pearce

ISBN 10: 1841501751 / ISBN 13: 9781841501758

Published by Intellect, Bristol, 2008

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Paperback. The new wave of documentaries that prominently feature their filmmakers, such as the works of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, have attracted fresh, new audiences to the formbut they have also drawn criticism that documentaries now promote entertainment at the expense of truth. Truth or Dare examines the clash between the authenticity claimed by documentaries and their association with imagination and experimental contemporary art. An experienced group of practitioners, artists, and theorists here question this binary, and the idea of documentary itself, in a cross-disciplinary volume that will force us to reconsider how competing interests shape filmmaking. Examines the clash between the authenticity claimed by documentaries and their association with imagination and experimental contemporary art. This work provides transcriptions of panellists in conversations at the conference, and a large number of stills depicting moving image artists' work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Truth or Dare (Paperback)
• Publisher: Intellect, Bristol
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841501751
• ISBN 13: 9781841501758
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The new wave of documentaries that prominently feature their filmmakers, such as the works of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, have attracted fresh, new audiences to the form—but they have also drawn criticism that documentaries now promote entertainment at the expense of truth. Truth or Dare examines the clash between the authenticity claimed by documentaries and their association with imagination and experimental contemporary art. An experienced group of practitioners, artists, and theorists here question this binary, and the idea of documentary itself, in a cross-disciplinary volume that will force us to reconsider how competing interests shape filmmaking. 

 

 

 

 

About the Authors

Gail Pearce teaches contemporary media art at Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom.
Cahal McLaughlin is senior lecturer in the School of Media, Film, and Journalism at the University of Ulster, United Kingdom. A documentary filmmaker with twenty years of experience, he is director of the Prisons Memory Archive of recordings in Northern Ireland.

 

 

Cahal McLaughlin is a senior lecturer at the School of Media, Film, and Journalism at the University of Ulster. He is also a documentary filmmaker whose recent projects include Inside Stories: Memories of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison and We Never Give Up.