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Creating Reality in Factual Television: The Frankenbite and Other Fakes: Routledge Advances in Television Studies

Autor Manfred W. Becker
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Creating Reality in Factual Television analyzes the uneasy interaction between economics, culture, and professional ethics in reality and documentary television storytelling. Through the "frankenbite," an editorial tool that extracts and re-orders the salient elements or single words of a statement, interview, or exchange into a revealing confession or argument, the book explores how and why editors manipulate truth in factual television.
The author considers how the editing of documentary television is increasingly following reality television’s dictate to entertain instead of inform, how the "real" and the "truth" fall victim to the demand to "tell entertaining stories," and how editors must compromise their professional ethics as a result. Drawing on interviews with 75 North American and European editors that explore their experiences and opinions of reality and documentary television practices, and their views on their responsibilities and loyalties in the field, Creating Reality in Factual Television illuminates the real and potential ethical dilemmas of editorial decision making, the context in which decisions are made, and how editors themselves validate the editing choices to themselves and others.
Addressing a dramatic development in contemporary media ecology – the age of "alternative facts" – this book is a useful research tool for scholars and students of documentary film, media literacy, genre studies, media ethics, affect theory, and audience perception.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367492717
ISBN-10: 0367492717
Pagini: 184
Ilustrații: 14
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Advances in Television Studies

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. The Cutting Room as Field of Academic Inquiry  2. Reality Roots  3. Cross-Pollination and the Problem with Story4. Dancing with Contradiction in Factual Television  5.Self-Reflexive Editing for Informed Audiences  Appendix
 


Notă biografică

Manfred W. Becker is a documentary filmmaker and Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director in the MFA Film program at York University, Canada



Recenzii

"At a time when documentary ethics debates are heating up, this carefully-researched account of editorial practice in factual television in context is much needed. Becker probes the gap between academic analysis and even carefully-considered practice, and between creators’ intentions and commercial imperatives. "Frankenbite" is a valuable cautionary word to add to our documentary vocabulary."
-Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication, American University
"Creating Reality in Factual Television: the Frankenbite and other Fakes will be an important contribution and much-needed addition to the ethics questions of editing in factual programming. The book will directly address the particularly important value of storytelling as a scripted approach, as a narrative device is coming under increasing critical scrutiny because of unintended or deliberate consequence in a form of emotional manipulation of the audience. It will also introduce and discuss the question of who might presume ultimate editorial control among the competing interests and values of the editor, producer and commissioner of the program. As the hybridization of information and entertainment become more pronounced in all media, the role of independent adjudication by independent ombudsmen or public editors is clearly indicated. This book will be an important step in that direction."
- Jeffrey Dvorkin, First NPR News Ombudsman and Program Director, Journalism, University of Toronto

Descriere

This book analyzes the uneasy interaction between economics, culture, and professional ethics in reality and documentary television storytelling. Through the "frankenbite," the book explores how and why editors manipulate truth in factual television.