Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make
sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of
storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood
of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true
accounts. In Stories Make the World, award-winning screenwriter
Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of
how documentary filmmakers and other storytellers come to understand
their subjects and cast light on the world through their art. Drawing on
the author's decades of experience behind the scenes of television and
film documentaries, this is an indispensable account of the principles
and paradoxes that attend the quest to represent reality truthfully.