In Imaging Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary; Oscar-winning documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September; Touching the Void) and leading broadcaster/historian Mark Cousins (The Story of Film) offer an expanded; revised edition of their definitive; inspirational (Independent) compendium on the roots and history of the documentary film. Imagining Reality takes the reader on a tour of the evolution of documentary film as an increasingly vibrant; polemical; experimental and entertaining form. It gathers a wide-ranging collection of writings by and about such groundbreaking documentary-makers as Vertov; Flaherty; Marcel Ophuls; Chris Marker; Kieslowski; Claude Lanzmann; and Nick Broomfield. The story is carried up to date by attention to the success documentaries have had among mainstream movie audiences in recent years; including Michael Moores Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11; The Buena Vista Social Club; Spellbound; Capturing The Friedmans; �tre Et Avoir; and The Fog Of War.
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