Each issue sells for £12.00 or you can subscribe to get 3 issues per year for £38. Not a penny too much for such high quality writing I can assure you! Anyway here's a quick bit about what I wrote:
The title is Real Entertainment: Star Directors and the Modern Documentary and here is the opening paragraph:
'The term documentary is
tricky to define and the films are often even more challenging to watch, enjoy
and categorise. Is documentary a genre, a form or a mode? Much ink has been
spilt defining, grouping and identifying documentaries as an alternative to
fiction cinema. Perhaps this is the most useful place to start when discussing
documentary. This group of films are non-fiction or as Patricia Aufderheide
puts it, ‘documentary is a film genre in which a pledge is made to the viewer
that what we will see and hear is about something true and real’ (2007: 56).'
Here is a further snippet that gives a clearer idea of the thrust of the article:
'The three documentaries that
will be focused on in this article were all released to critical acclaim and
varying degrees of box-office success in the last ten years. Two are made by
recognisable figures that feature in their own documentaries, Michael Moore and
Morgan Spurlock, while the third is directed by a film-maker becoming better
known for his work in fiction film, Kevin Macdonald. Bowling for Columbine (2002) is an extremely controversial film
that explores gun culture in America
in the wake of the Columbine
High school tragedy. It
won the Oscar for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards in 2003 and grossed
over $35 million worldwide. Super Size Me
(2004) continued the trend of director/stars putting themselves in their films
front and centre in an attempt to make their documentaries more accessible and
entertaining. Spurlock attempts to eat nothing but food from McDonald’s for 30
days in order to investigate the effects such a diet would have on his body. Finally
Life in a Day (2011) is an ambitious
experiment that combines footage shot by people from all around the world on
their own cameras and endeavours to cut it together into a feature film about
one day in the life of planet Earth and its inhabitants. These examples reflect
the range of documentary films that have been made in recent years and also the
impact they can have, both at the box office and in society more generally.'
I hope you like the sound of it. I enjoyed writing it and seeing my name in print! Just to prove I'm not making this all up or dreaming it, here is a lovely picture from the new issue.
So that's it from me today! Hope you all have a lovely weekend and if you ever want me to contribute anything to any of your wonderful blogs, I'd be more over the moon than a slobbery puppy getting a new owner! So please feel free to drop me a line just like Andina and Keith did.
I Love That Film Loves You All Movie Blogging Buddies! Happy freaking weekend!
