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Why documentaries matter

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Documentaries have for many decades inhabited the schedules of public broadcasters. They have chronicled the lives and institutions of western democracies. In the past two decades, however, documentaries have become recognised as an innovative cultural form. Instead of being exclusively funded by television channels, documentaries receive money from a number of sources, including film funds, private investors and foundations. Rather than observing, documentaries are now thought capable of cha...

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University of Oxford
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Publisher:
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford Publisher's website
Series:
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism: Challenges
Publication date:
2012-01-01
ISBN:
9781907384097
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English
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2012-07-04

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