J?rgen B?ttcher and Documentary Film: Documentaries, Contemporaries, History

ISBN-13: 9781032701240 / Angielski

Elizabeth Daggett Matar

Opis

Jürgen Böttcher and Documentary Film introduces the reader to this east-German filmmaker who, despite having made 40 films from the east side of the Berlin Wall, is practically unknown.

 

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction 

Chapter 2: The Biography of Jürgen Böttcher, Filmmaker, and STRAWALDE, Artist 

Chapter 3: Dramaturgy and Structure in Observational Documentary in 1962 — Jürgen Böttcher’s Ofenbauer (Furnace Makers) and Robert Drew and Richard Leacock’s The Chair

Chapter 4: The Representation of Women in Observational Cinema — Richard Leacock and Joyce Chopra’s Happy Mother’s Day (Director’s Cut) and Jürgen Böttcher’s Stars, 1963

Chapter 5: Jürgen Böttcher and Frederick Wiseman — Institutions and Workplace in Observational Documentary Films in 1984 

Chapter 6: Jürgen Böttcher and Barbara Kopple and Reform in Participatory/Reflexive Documentary in 1990 

Chapter 7: Conclusion — Documentary Contrasts in Structure, Content/Subject, Content/Place, and Content/Change in Group Identity and an Expanded Definition of Documentary Modes

O autorze

Elizabeth Daggett Matar is Assistant Professor in the College of Mass Media and Communication at American University in the Emirates, teaching media production, and adjunct professor at Middlesex University, Dubai teaching immersive storytelling. In 2011, Matar was named an "expert" in documentary film by the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Cultural Affairs' Documentary Showcase Program. She completed this work as part of a Doctorate in Media and Communication at Universität Hamburg.