1st Edition

Interactive Documentary Theory and Debate

By Kate Nash Copyright 2022
178 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Tracing continuities in digital and documentary practices, this book is a study of interactive documentary from the perspective of documentary culture. Exploring the dizzying array of new documentary forms that have emerged in the past ten years, the book is grounded in the analysis of multiple recent examples of digital documentary work, drawing out the key issues that the work raises. These... Read more

Introduction: Interactive documentary: Theory and debate

Chapter 1 Documentary Databases: On (not) telling stories in the possibility space

Chapter 2 Participatory intensities: Exploring interactive documentary practice

Chapter 3 Interactive documentary and the political: Civic cultures and convening publics

Chapter 4 Reality effects: Simulation as interactive documentary practice

Chapter 5 Stepping into the story for good: Virtual reality (VR) and empathy in the context of first-person media

Chapter 6 The petabyte (anti)sublime: Big data, knowledge, and interactive documentary

Conclusion: From 'mass extinction' to renewal?

Biography

Kate Nash is Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds. Her research explores the intersections of documentary practice and digital media culture. She has published widely in leading journals and is co-editor (with Craig Hight) of Studies in Documentary Film.