
Interactive Documentary and Non-Fiction Media
Relational Practice and (De)Stabilized Reception- Editors:
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- Series:
- Edition Medienwissenschaft, Volume 130
- Publisher:
- 2026
Summary
Interactive documentaries combine moving images, text, graphics, and digital interactions to create dynamic, web-based narrative formats. As a post-cinematographic expansion of the classical documentary film, they provide viewers with opportunities to select options and make decisions that co-determine what is shown and in what order. This volume brings together perspectives from film, media, game, and interface studies and includes analyses of key works as well as interviews with actors involved in making interactive documentaries. Key topics explored include opportunities for participating in interactive formats, challenges for the long-term archiving and accessibility of browser-based documentaries, and the influence of software and interfaces on the concept of the documentary.
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Bibliographic data
- Edition
- 1/2026
- Copyright Year
- 2026
- ISBN-Print
- 978-3-8376-7904-5
- ISBN-Online
- 978-3-8394-3066-8
- Publisher
- transcript, Bielefeld
- Series
- Edition Medienwissenschaft
- Volume
- 130
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 259
- Product Type
- Edited Book
Table of contents
- “In the beginning, there was only one mistake we could make and that was not to try.”Pages 51 - 58Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Have You Seen Everything? Accessing Content in Web‐Based Interactive DocumentariesPages 59 - 71Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- “I don’t think we’re going to face a disaster like we faced with Flash again”.Pages 73 - 84Authors: |Download chapter (PDF)
- Getting Through Difficult Conversations: Co‑Creative Interactive Documentary and AdvocacyPages 123 - 139Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Interactive Documentary in Teaching. A Practical ReportPages 179 - 183Authors: | | |Download chapter (PDF)
- Stop, Skip, and Operate: Epistemologies of the Interactive Documentary FilmPages 185 - 198Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- “Epistemologies of Restitution”. Interactive Audiovisual Historiography on Returning Cultural Materials Looted From the Former German Colony of TogoPages 231 - 248Authors:Download chapter (PDF)





