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.

About the Author

Gail Pearce teaches contemporary media art at Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom.
Cahal McLaughlin is senior lecturer in the School of Media, Film, and Journalism at the University of Ulster, United Kingdom. A documentary filmmaker with twenty years of experience, he is director of the Prisons Memory Archive of recordings in Northern Ireland.

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"[It] conveys the energy, ambition and integrity of those who contributed to it." - Scott Colfer, TransitionTradition.com



Book Information
ISBN 9781841501758
Author Gail Pearce
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Intellect Books
Publisher Intellect Books
Weight(grams) 240g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 8mm