Truth or Dare

Art and Documentary

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Edited by Gail Pearce and Cahal McLaughlin

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Documentary

Keywords

documentary, arts

Publishing date

2008

Publisher

Intellect Books

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 144 pages
7 x 9 inches (18 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-84150-175-8

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Book Presentation:
The new wave of documentaries that prominently feature their filmmakers, such as the works of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, have attracted fresh, new audiences to the form—but they have also drawn criticism that documentaries now promote entertainment at the expense of truth. Truth or Dare examines the clash between the authenticity claimed by documentaries and their association with imagination and experimental contemporary art. An experienced group of practitioners, artists, and theorists here question this binary, and the idea of documentary itself, in a cross-disciplinary volume that will force us to reconsider how competing interests shape filmmaking.

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