Book Signing: Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction by Pat Aufderheide
Mon, Apr 21 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Victoria College, 93 Charles Street West, First Floor
Pat Aufderheide will be signing copies of her new book, Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford U Press), following the Open Source / Fair Use Talk at 3:00 pm in the Rogers Industry Centre (Victoria College), 93 Charles St. W, First Floor. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes readers along the diverse paths of documentary history and charts the lively, often fierce debates among filmmakers and scholars about the best ways to represent reality and to tell the truths worth telling. Drawing on the author’s four decades of experience as a film scholar and critic, this book is the perfect introduction not just for teachers and students but also for all thoughtful filmgoers and for those who aspire to make documentaries themselves.
Michael Rabiger, author of the leading text, Directing the Documentary, said, “This is the first book about documentary I’ve encountered that tackles its identity, history, evolution, and major controversies enjoyably and in brief. I marvel at how much ground Pat Aufderheide covers and the clarity she brings to documentary’s many functions, paradoxes, and contradictions. Maybe religion alone has more.”
