Product Description: Using film and television in critical ways has become part of the fabric of society. John O'Connor presents a comprehensive survey of the types of methodological issues that must concern any historian addressing film or television as historical document or artifact...read more

Addressing a range of programmes and formats from news, to documentary, to popular factual genres, this book examines the ways viewers navigate their way through a constantly changing factual television environment. It addresses a range of programmes that fall within the category of 'factuality', from politics, to reality entertainment.

Product Description: Documentary productions encompass remarkable representations of surprising realities. How do documentaries achieve their ends? What types of documentaries are there? What factors are implicated in their production? Such questions animate this engaging study...read more

Product Description: True confessions, fake films and docu-soaps - factual television has been transformed by an explosion of new genres. This book offers a serious look at "reality TV" in an attempts to understand the mass media's fascination with intimacy, deviancy, and horror...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Before the Internet, camcorders, and hundred-channel cable- systems--predating the Information Superhighway and talk of cyber-democracy--there was guerilla television. Part of the larger alternative media tide which swept the country in the late sixties, guerilla television emerged when the arrival of lightweight, affordable consumer video equipment made it possible for ordinary people to make their own television...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Outlines the character of the video-documentary, its function as a tool for education, social change, and historical record-keeping, and the concepts and techniques for making an effective video-documentary