The documentary film reader : history, theory, criticism / edited by Jonathan Kahana.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kahana, Jonathan, 1966-2019, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xviii, 1024 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Contents:

I. Early documentary : from the illustrated lecture to the factual film. Introduction to Section I / Jonathan Kahana ; "From lecturer's prop to industrial product : the early history of travel films" (2006) / Rick Altman ; "Burton Holmes pleases a large audience at the Columbia" (1905) / Anonymous ; "Placing the spectator on the scene of history : modern warfare and the battle reenactment at the turn of the century" (2008) / Kristen Whissel ; "Let there be Lumière" (1999) / Dai Vaughan ; "A new source of history" (1898) / Boleslas Matuszewski ; "Before documentary : early nonfiction films and the 'view' aesthetic" (1997) / Tom Gunning ; "The Continental Film Company" (1912) / Edward S. Curtis et al. ; Review of In the land of the head hunters (1914) / W. Stephen Bush ; "Playing primitive" (1999) / Catherine Russell ; "Movies of Eskimo life win much appreciation" (1915) / Anonymous ; Review of Nanook of the North (1922) / Anonymous ; "Flaherty's poetic Moana" (1926) / John Grierson ; "Flaherty" (1931-32) / John Grierson ; "Lured by the east : ethnographic and expedition films about nomadic tribes ; The case of Grass" (2006) / Hamid Naficy ; "Compulsive cameramen" (1925) / Béla Balázs ; "New films make war seem more personal" (1916) / Anonymous ; "Cinema, spectatorship, and propaganda : Battle of the Somme (1916) and its contemporary audience" (1997) / Nicholas Reeves

II. Modernisms : state, left, and avant-garde documentary between the wars. Introduction to Section II / Jonathan Kahana ; "The art of the camera : an experimental "movie"" (1921) / Robert Allerton Parker ; "Montage" (1947) / Siegfried Kracauer ; "The man with the movie camera : from magician to epistemologist" (1972) / Annette Michelson ; "Cinema weekly and Cinema truth : Dziga Vertov and the Leninist proportion" (1973) / Seth Feldman ; "WE : variant of a manifesto" (1922) / Dziga Vertov ; "Bridge" (1964) / Jay Leyda ; "Reality at second hand" (1991) / Mikhail Iampolsky ; "The making of Rain" (1969) / Joris Ivens ; "Reflections on the avant-garde documentary" (1931) / Joris Ivens ; "Documentary surrealism : on land without bread" (1986) / Tom Conley ; "The documentary producer" (1933) / John Grierson ; "First principles of documentary" (1932-34) / John Grierson ; "Home truths from abroad" (1937) / Otis Ferguson ; "Straight shots and crooked plots : social documentary and the avant-garde in the 1930s" (1995) / Charles Wolfe ; "The revolutionary film : problem of form" (1934) / Samuel Brody ; "The revolutionary film : next step" (1934) / Leo T. Hurwitz ; "A new approach to film making" (1935) / Ralph Steiner and Leo T. Hurwitz ; Letter from Knoxville (1936) / Willard Van Dyke ; Letter to Jay Leyda (1935) / Ralph Steiner ; "Down to Earth in Spain" (1937) / John T. McManus ; "Historicizing the "Voice of God" : the place of voice-over commentary in classical documentary" (1997) / Charles Wolfe ; "Triumph of the will : notes on documentary, and spectacle" (1979) / Steve Neale ; "Films at the Fair" (1939) / Richard Griffith

III. Documentary propaganda : World War II and the post-war citizen. Introduction to Section III / Jonathan Kahana ; Review of Iwo Jima newsreels (1945) / James Agee ; Review of San Pietro (1945) / James Agee ; "The Negro soldier (1944) : film propaganda in black and white" (1979) / Thomas Cripps and David Culbert ; "On Why we fight : history, documentation, and the newsreel" (1946) / Andre Bazin ; "The poetics of propaganda : Humphrey Jennings and Listen to Britain" (1998) / Jim Leach ; "Documentary in the United States in the immediate post-World War II years" (1989) / George C. Stoney ; "Documenting citizenship : reexamining the 1950s National Film Board Films about citizenship" (2000) / Zoe Druick ; "Moving pictures : the films division of India and the visual practices of the nation-state" (2007) / Srirupa Roy ; "Experiments in propaganda : reintroducing James Blue's Colombian trilogy" (2009) / Jennifer Horne ; "Peter Watkins discusses his suppressed nuclear film The war game" (1965) / Peter Watkins with James Blue and Michael Gill

IV. Aesthetics of liberation : free, direct, and vérité cinemas. Introduction to Section IV / Jonathan Kahana ; "The castration of documentary" (1953) / Jean Painleve ; "On Blood of the beasts" (1963) / Jean Cocteau ; "Free cinema" (1957) / Lindsay Anderson ; "The one-ton pencil" (1962) / Tom Whiteside ; "Chronicle of a film" (1962) / Edgar Morin ; "Radical humanism and the coexistence of film and poetry in The house is black" (2003) / Jonathan Rosenbaum ; "The politics of visual anthropology" (1977) / Jean Rouch with Dan Georgakas, Udayan Gupta, and Judy Janda ; "For an uncontrolled cinema" (1961) / Ricky Leacock ; "On the candid-eye movement" (1977) / Bruce Elder ; "To Mayor Lindsay / On film journalism and newsreels" (1966) / Jonas Mekas ; "Realism as a style in Cinema verite : a critical analysis of Primary" (1991) / Jeanne Hall ; "As significant as the invention of drama or the novel" (1973) / Margaret Mead

V. Talking back : radical voices and visions after 1968. Introduction to Section V / Jonathan Kahana ; "Hour of the furnaces and the two avant gardes" (1981) / Robert Stam ; "Toward a definition of the didactic documentary : a paper presented to the First National Congress of Education and Culture" (1978) / Juan Carlos Espinosa, Jorge Fraga, Estrella Pantin ; "Newsreel" (1969) / Norm Fruchter, Marilyn Buck, Karen Ross, and Robert Kramer ; ""You start off with a bromide" : conversation with film maker Frederick Wiseman" (1974) / Frederick Wiseman with Alan Westin ; "Beyond observational cinema" (1975) / David MacDougall ; "Beyond Pirandello" (1970) / Pauline Kael ; "Pioneers of black documentary film" (1999) / Pearl Bowser ; "Rediscovering documentary : cultural context and intentionality" (1990) / Michael Chanan ; ""5 frames are 5 frames, not 6, but 5" : an interview with Santiago Alvarez" (1975) / Santiago Alvarez with the editors of Cineaste ; "The postwar documentary trace : groping in the dark" (2002) / Abe Mark Nornes ; "An interview with Emile de Antonio" (1973) / Emile de Antonio with Tanya Neufeld ; Reply to de Antonio / Annette Michelson ; "The voice of documentary" (1983) / Bill Nichols ; "Two laws from Australia, one white, one black : the recent past and the challenging future of ethnographic film" (1983) / James Roy MacBean ; Review of Word is out (1979) / Lee Atwell ; "The political aesthetics of the feminist documentary film" (1978) / Julia Lesage ; "Theories and strategies of the feminist documentary" (1983) / E. Ann Kaplan ; "Paying dues : a personal experience with theatrical distribution" (1977) / Jill Godmilow ; "A black avant-garde? Notes on black audio film collective and Sankofa" (1988) / Coco Fusco ; "Strategic compromises : AIDS and alternative video practices" (1990) / John Greyson

VI. Truth not guaranteed : reflections, revisions, and returns. Introduction to Section VI / Jonathan Kahana ; "Documentary : artifice in the service of truth" (1975) / Robert Sklar ; "Notes on ethnographic film by a film artist" (1978) / Chick Strand ; "The diary film : a lecture on Reminiscences of a journey to Lithuania" (1972) / Jonas Mekas ; "Toward a poetics of documentary" (1993) / Michael Renov ; "Mechanical eye, electronic ear and the lure of authenticity" (1984) / Trinh T. Minh-ha ; "The tradition of the victim in Griersonian documentary" (1988) / Brian Winston ; "Shoah : the being of nothingness" (1985-86) / J. Hoberman ; "Site and speech : an interview with Claude Lanzmann about Shoah" (1985) / Claude Lanzmann with Marc Chevrie and Hervé Le Roux ; "Mirrors without memories : truth, history, and the new documentary" (1993) / Linda Williams ; "Truth not guaranteed : an interview with Errol Morris" (1989) / Errol Morris with Peter Bates ; "Michael & me" (1989) / Michael Moore with Harlan Jacobson ; ""Acting to play oneself : notes on performance in documentary" (1990) / Thomas Waugh ; "Marlon Riggs : the subjective position of documentary video" (1995) / Phillip Brian Harper ; "Melodrama/male drama : the sentimental contract of American labor films" (2002) / Paula Rabinowitz ; "Familial pursuits, Editorial acts : documentaries after the age of home video" (2007) / Marsha Orgeron and Devin Orgeron ; "Inscribing ethical space : 10 propositions on death, representation, and documentary" (1984) / Vivian Sobchack ; "Jargons of authenticity (three American moments)" (1993) / Paul Arthur

VII. Documentary transformed : transnational and transmedial crossings. Introduction to Section VII / Jonathan Kahana ; "A perfect replica : an interview with Harun Farocki and Jill Godmilow" (1998) / Harun Farocki and Jill Godmilow.with Jennifer Horne and Jonathan Kahana ; "Mixing impossible genres : David Achkar and African autobiographical documentary" (2003) / Rachel Gabara ; "Writing on walls : the future of African documentary cinema" (2010) / Jean-marie Teno ; "Getting real : Chinese documentary, Chinese postsocialism" (2007) / Chris Berry ; "DV : individual filmmaking" (2066) / Wu Wenguang ; "Weapon of mass instruction : Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11" (2004) / Richard Porton ; "Up close and political : three short ruminations on ideology in the nature film" (2006) / Scott MacDonald ; "Bus 174 and the living present" (2006) / Amy Villarejo ; "Cave of forgotten dreams : meditations on 3D" (2012) / Barbara Klinger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199739653

9780199739646

0199739641

019973965X

OCLC:

907391317

Publisher Number:

99968200831