Stories Make the World

Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-575-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 571 g

Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make the World, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of how documentary filmmakers and other storytellers come to understand their subjects and cast light on the world through their art. Drawing on the author’s decades of experience behind the scenes of television and film documentaries, this is an indispensable account of the principles and paradoxes that attend the quest to represent reality truthfully.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Most, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Dokumentarfilme
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART I: STORYTELLERS

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Pedro Azabache

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Eduardo Calderón

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Erik H. Erikson

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Ginetta Sagan

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Hannah Arendt

PART II: BEGINNINGS AND ENDS

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Achilles' Shield

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Fire in the Cave

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Theater of History

PART III: THE NATURAL WORLD

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On the Interstellarnet

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The View from the Sierra Madre

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Upstream, Downstream

PART IV: THE HUMAN WORLD

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Imagining Freedom

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Land of Plenty

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Fields of Centers

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Through the Wall

PART V: THE ANTHROPOCENE

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Baked Alaska

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Sounds of a Changing Planet

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The Rim of the World

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Selected Filmography

Notes and Sources

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Most, Stephen
Stephen Most is a writer and filmmaker. He has writing credits on four Academy Award “best documentary” nominees and five Emmy-winning films, including Wonders of Nature, Promises, and Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time. His book River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin was published in 2006.

Stephen Most is a writer and filmmaker. He has writing credits on four Academy Award “best documentary” nominees and five Emmy-winning films, including Wonders of Nature, Promises, and Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time. His book River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin was published in 2006.