Stories Make the World : Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary （2ND）

Most, Stephen

Berghahn Books（2025/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781836950103
• DDC分類 070.18

Full Description

Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make the World, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of how documentary filmmakers and other storytellers come to understand their subjects and cast light on the world through their art. Drawing on the author's decades of experience behind the scenes of television and film documentaries, this is an indispensable account of the principles and paradoxes that attend the quest to represent reality truthfully.

Contents

Prologue to the Second Edition

Introduction

PART I: STORYTELLERS

Pedro Azabache

Eduardo Calderón

Erik H. Erikson

Ginetta Sagan

Hannah Arendt

PART II: BEGINNINGS AND ENDS

Achilles' Shield

Fire in the Cave

Theater of History

PART III: THE NATURAL WORLD

On the Interstellarnet

The View from the Sierra Madre

Upstream, Downstream

PART IV: THE HUMAN WORLD

Imagining Freedom

Land of Plenty

Fields of Centers

Through the Wall

PART V: THE ANTHROPOCENE

Baked Alaska

Sounds of a Changing Planet

The Rim of the World

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Selected Filmography

Notes and Sources

Index