Stories Make the World

Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary

Stephen Most (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2025 | 2nd edition
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781836950103 (ISBN)

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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.

Stephen Most is a writer and filmmaker. He has writing credits on four Academy Award “best documentary” nominees and five Emmy-winning films, including Wonders of Nature, Promises, and Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time. His book River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin was published in 2006.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	08.05.2025
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
ISBN-13	9781836950103 / 9781836950103
Zustand	Neuware