Story Movements: How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change explores the rise of social-issue documentaries, focusing on the behind-the-scenes grassroots tactics and real-world social impact of such influential films as Blackfish, The Invisible War, 13th, and Citizenfour.
Story Movements: How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change explores the rise of social-issue documentaries, focusing on the behind-the-scenes grassroots tactics and real-world social impact of such influential films as Blackfish, The Invisible War, 13th, and Citizenfour.
Caty Borum Chattoo is Executive Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact and Assistant Professor at the American University School of Communication. She is an award-winning documentary producer, scholar, professor, and strategist working at the intersection of social change communication, documentary, and entertainment storytelling. She is also the co-author, with Lauren Feldman, of A Comedian and An Activist Walk Into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice.
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* Preface * Acknowledgements * Chapter 1: Revealing New Reality: Documentary's Networked Era Arrives * Chapter 2: Evolving Documentaries and Social Change: Historical Highlights * Chapter 3: Opening a New Lens: Documentary Functions as Civic Storytelling * Chapter 4: Activating Community: The Movement Builders * Chapter 5: Mobilizing for Change: Inside the Blackfish Effect * Chapter 6: Humanizing the Headlines: Documentary's Interpretive Framing * Chapter 7: Shaping Laws: Documentaries and Policy Engagement * Chapter 8: Interrogating Hidden Truths: Investigative Documentary * Chapter 9: Imagining the Future: Why Documentary Matters * Appendix A: Interviewees * Appendix B: Documentary and Social Change Landscape: Profiled Organizations and * Initiatives * Appendix C: Filmography * Index
