Beyond document : essays on nonfiction film / edited by Charles Warren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Warren, Charles, 1948-2021.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England [for] Wesleyan University Press, [1996]

Summary:

'Beyond Document' explores the full spectrum of nonfiction film and its creative possibilities, and this issue also looks at ethnographic films and other works.

Contents:

1 Words of Welcome / Stanley Cavell Cavell, Stanley

2 Introduction with a Brief History of Nonfiction Film / Charles Warren Warren, Charles

3 Death and the Image / Jay Cantor Cantor, Jay

4 Memory's Movies / Patricia Hampl Hampl, Patricia

5 Eternal Verites / William Rothman Rothman, William

6 The Toil of Thought: On Several Nonfiction Films by Women / Helene Keyssar Keyssar, Helene

7 The Camera People / Eliot Weinberger Weinberger, Eliot

8 The Impulse to Preserve / Robert Gardner Gardner, Robert

9 You are There / Maureen Howard Howard, Maureen

10 Earth and Beyond: Dusan Makaveyev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism / Charles Warren Warren, Charles

11 In Search of the Centaur: The Essay Film / Phillip Lopate Lopate, Phillip

12 Vertov's Cinematic Transposition of Reality / Vlada Petric Petric, Vlada

13 Sorting Facts; or Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker / Susan Howe Howe, Susan

14 Selected Bibliography

15 About the Contributors

16 Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-350) and index.

ISBN:

0819552879

0819562904

OCLC:

32468179