Directing the Documentary by Michael Rabiger

Directing the Documentary by Michael Rabiger

This hands-on resource offers a series of projects teaching necessary skills through action. It clearly details the different processes and methods for directing, from preproduction research and subject selection through production and postproduction. It offers basic concepts and principles.

Michael Rabiger has directed or edited over 35 films, founded the Documentary Center at Columbia College, Chicago, and was Chair of its Film/Video Department. Now Professor Emeritus, Rabiger has also been presented with the Preservation and Scholarship Award by the International Documentary Association. He has given workshops in many countries, led a multinational European documentary workshop for CILECT, the international association of film schools. As Visiting Professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, he taught idea development, directing, and advanced production. When he retired 2001 to write full-time, Columbia renamed its documentary center The Michael Rabiger Center for Documentary. In 2002 he was made Honorary Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; in 2003 awarded the 2003 Preservation and Scholarship Award by the International Documentary Association in Los Angeles; in 2005 the Genius Career Achievement Award by the Chicago International Documentary Festival, and also in 2005 was made Professor Emeritus by Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of the enormously successful, Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics (Focal Press), now in its fourth edition, and Directing the Documentary (Focal Press), now in its fifth edition. He is also the author of Developing Story Ideas (Focal Press), currently in its second edition. He is currently writing a biography of Thomas Hardy.

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ISBN 13	9780240801261
ISBN 10	0240801261
Title	Directing the Documentary
Author	Michael Rabiger
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Elsevier Science & Technology
Year published	1992-02-07
Number of pages	336
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