Digital Media and Documentary: Antipodean Approaches

by Adrian Miles (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays by Australian based practitioner–theorists brings together new research on interactive documentary making. The chapters explore how documentary theory and practice is influenced by digitisation, mobile phones, and new internet platforms. The contributors highlight the questions raised for documentary makers and scholars as new production methods, narrative forms, and participation practices emerge. The book presents an introduction to documentary techniques shaped by new digital technologies, and will appeal to documentary scholars, students, and film-makers alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319686424
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	01/14/2018
Edition description:	1st ed. 2018
Pages:	114
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Adrian Miles is Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He is co–director of the non/fictionLab, and Deputy Dean of Learning and Teaching. He has published extensively on digital and networked video, and interactive documentary, and his research interests also include pedagogies for new media, digital video poetics, and experimental academic writing practices.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction - Adrian Miles.- 2. Moments of Noticing: I See You as a Speculative Work Towards an Essayistic List Practice for Interactive Documentary - Hannah Brasier.- 3. Documentary, Instructions and Experiences of Place - Bettina Frankham.- 4. The Documentary Designer: A List of Propositions for Interactive Documentary Practice Online - Seth Keen.- 5. Ambient Media Making, Auto– Documentary, and Affect - Adrian Miles.- 6. Miniature and Series: The Re–Invention of the Epistolary Form in the Work of Alexander Hahn - Cathie Payne.- 7. #24Frames 24Hours: An Emerging Documentary Form of Workshop Generated Videos - Max Schleser.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This timely collection focuses in on how media making intersects with documentary scholarship through a distinctly antipodean perspective. As a ‘conversation between scholarly research, creative practice, documentary and networked time-based media’ it questions and challenges the predominance of narrative based approaches, providing a welcome addition to the growing body of literature on interactive documentary practices.” (Judith Aston, Senior Lecturer in Filmmaking and Creative Media, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Co-founder of i-Docs and co-editor of I-Docs: the Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary, 2017)