A poet who climbed or a climber who writes poetry: The Poetry of Cinema and Movement in the Rock-Climbing Documentary

Kirby, Thomas

Abstract

This collection aims to give insight to the reader as to how poetic approaches to documentary filmmaking have helped to develop the documentary form into a rich and diverse way of representing the real world in film. As such, it is the aesthetics of documentary filmmaking that becomes the primary focus of discussion within this collection.

The majority of the chapters are written by documentary filmmakers who give insight into how poetics have influenced their own approach to documentary filmmaking, while other chapters are written by film scholars who analyse the work of others, in order to uncover how poetics are manifested in existing documentary films. This book will be of interest to those who produce documentary films, as well as those who have an interest in the work of other documentary filmmakers.

Citation

Kirby, T. A poet who climbed or a climber who writes poetry: The Poetry of Cinema and Movement in the Rock-Climbing Documentary. In The Place of Poetics within Documentary Filmmaking: The Art of Fact (171-188). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

• Online Publication Date: Jul 31, 2023
• Deposit Date: Apr 25, 2024
• Pages: 171-188
• Book Title: The Place of Poetics within Documentary Filmmaking: The Art of Fact
• Chapter Number: 12
• ISBN: 9781527518728
• Publisher URL: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-1872-8