Imagining Reality by Mark Cousins - ISBN: 9780571225149
Paperback
Explore the vibrant, experimental, and entertaining world of documentary filmmaking.

Imagining Reality

The Faber Book of Documentary

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  • Paperback

    496 pages

  • Release Date

    1 January 2007

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Summary

Oscar-winning documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald and leading broadcaster/historian Mark Cousins offer an expanded, revised edition of their ‘definitive, inspirational’ compendium on the roots and history of the documentary film.

Imagining Reality celebrates documentary as a vibrant, polemical, experimental and entertaining form, by gathering a wide-ranging collection of writings by and about such groundbreaking documentary-makers as Vertov, Flaherty, Marcel Ophuls, Chris Marke…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780571225149
ISBN-10:0571225144
Author:Mark Cousins, Kevin Macdonald
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Imprint:Faber & Faber
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:496
Edition:1st
Release Date:1 January 2007
Weight:490g
Dimensions:217mm x 135mm x 35mm
About The Author

Mark Cousins

Kevin Macdonald, born in Glasgow in 1967, is a Scottish documentary film director, best known for Touching the Void (2003). He is the grandson of the Hungarian-born English filmmaker, Emeric Pressburger. After making a series of biographical documentaries, Macdonald directed One Day in September (2000), about the killing of Israeli atheletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The film won an Academy Award for Best Documentary. His next film was Touching the Void, which told the story of two climbers’ disastrous attempt to scale the Siula Grande in the Andes in 1985. The film won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the 2004 BAFTA Awards.

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