Download or read book From Grierson to the Docu-soap written by John Izod and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores a range of issues relating to the documentary's achievement over the past decades, and considers its prospects on entering the new millennium. In the first part of the book, a number of writers reappraise John Grierson's contribution to the history of documentary. Most focus on his influence on the internation.