The Act of Documenting Documentary Film in the 21st Century

Brian Winston is Professor of Communications and Lincoln Chair at the University of Lincoln, UK. He has held senior academic posts at UK National Film and Television School, New York University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Wales (Cardiff), Westminster University and the University of Lincoln where, before his present position, he was a Pro-Vice Chancellor. In 1985, he won an Emmy for documentary script writing.

Gail Vanstone is the director of the Culture and Expression program at York University, Canada. She is concerned with the affordances of new technology for the documentary and women's film production. Her history of the women's film unit at Canada's National Film Board, D is for Daring, was published in 2007.

Wang Chi is a doctoral student at the University of Lincoln, UK. He has published widely on the documentary in Chinese, including the edited volumes (with Brian Winston) Documenting and Methods (2014).

PART ONE: TROUBLES
Prologue - The Act of Documenting I
Chapter 1 - A Walk in the Woods - Integrity
Chapter 2 - To Thine Own Self Be True - Performance
Chapter 3 - Takt - Taste
PART TWO: ALTERNATIVES
Prologue - The Act of Documenting II
Chapter 4 - "Clicktivism" - Participation
Chapter 5 - To Live to Witness - Memory
Chapter 6 - Discarding the Master's Tools - New Knowledges
Afterword - The Great Archive of Humanity
Filmography
Notes
Index

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