Documentary in Wales

Dafydd Sills-Jones is Associate Professor at Te Kura Whakapaho, Te Wananga Aronui o Tamaki Makau Rau (School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology).Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones is Director of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies and Professor of Linguistic Diversity and Creative Industries at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

• CONTENTS: Dafydd Sills-Jones/Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones: Documentary in Wales: Cultures and Practices – Dafydd Sills-Jones: Anorac: Locating «Feature Doc» in the Documentary Ecology of Cymru–Wales – Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones: Representing Sociolinguistic Reality in a Minoritized Language: S4C, Documentary and «Translanguaging» – John Geraint: Making History: The Story of Wales – Representing the Nation – Geraint Ellis: Arts for All?: S4C, Arts Documentaries and the Notion of Quality – Iwan England: Embracing Complexity: Aberfan: The Fight for Justice – Colin Thomas: Rethinking Documentary: Wales and the British Documentary Tradition – Nia Dryhurst: Creative Documentary?: Csikszentmihalyi’s Systems Model and Documentary Production in Wales – Greg Bevan: Activism and Online Documentary: The Life and Death of Sianel62 – Helen Davies/Merris Griffiths: Capturing Youth Voices: Participatory «Social Network Documentary» Production and Political Engagement in a Small Nation – Anne Marie Carty: Authorship, Representation and Ethics: Collaborative Filmmaking with Rural Communities in Wales – Joanna Wright: Interactive, Immersive and Digital Documentary Practice in Wales: A Work in Progress.

«This timely volume presents a series of thoughtful articles by a diverse group of practitioners and academics that explore and extend our understanding of the complexity of the term ‹Welsh documentary›. Engaging and eloquently argued, this is essential reading, a landmark in the literature on cinema and broadcasting in Wales.»(John Burgan, MetFilm School, Berlin and Zelig School for Documentary, Television and New Media (Bozen/Bolzano))«When identity politics coincided with the growth of television, analysis of what it means to be Welsh was done on screen. Documentary makers captured a small, complex country with an evolving political, social and linguistic identity. This is a must-read on the power of the documentary maker to analyse and influence thinking.»(Professor Dame Elan Closs Stephens, Non-Executive Director of the BBC and Pro-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University)