Documenting the documentary : close readings of documentary film and video / with a foreword by Bill Nichols ; edited by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-

Sloniowski, Jeannette.

Series:

Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 p.)

Edition:

New and expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Anthology of essays on the artistic and persuasive aspects of documentary film from a range of critical viewpoints.

Contents:

The filmmaker as hunter : Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the north / William Rothman

"Peace between man and machine" : Dziga Vertov's Man with a movie camera / Seth Feldman

Paradise regained : Sergei Eisenstein's Que viva Mexico! as ethnography / Joanne Hershfield

Synthetic vision : the dialectical imperative of Luis Buñuel's Las hurdes / Vivian Sobchack

The art of national projection : Basil Wright's Song of Ceylon / William Guynn

The mass psychology of fascist cinema : Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the will / Frank P. Tomasulo

American documentary finds its voice : persuasion and expression in The plow that broke the plains and the city / Charlie Keil

"Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death" : Joris Ivens's The Spanish earth / Thomas Waugh

The poetics of propaganda : Humphrey Jennings and Listen to Britain / Jim Leach

"It was an atrocious film" : Georges Franju's Blood of the beasts / Jeannette Sloniowski

The "dialogic imagination" of Jean Rouch : covert conversations in Les maîtres fous / Diane Scheinman

Documenting the ineffable : terror and memory in Alain Resnais's Night and fog / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis

Making the past present : Peter Watkins's Culloden / John R. Cook

"Don't you ever just watch?" : American cinema verite and Dont look back / Jeanne Hall

"Ethnography in the first person" : Frederick Wiseman's Titicut follies / Barry Keith Grant

The two avant-gardes : Solanas and Getino's The hour of the furnaces / Robert Stam

Seeing with experimental eyes : Stan Brakhage's The act of seeing with one's own eyes / Bart Testa

"A bastard union of several forms" : style and narrative in An American family / Jeffrey K. Ruoff

The documentary of displaced persona : Michael Rubbo's Daisy, the story of a facelift / Joan Nicks

Gender, power, and a cucumber : satirizing masculinity in This is spinal tap / Carl Plantinga

Documentary film and the discourse of hysterical/historical narrative : Ross McElwee's Sherman's march / Lucy Fischer

Subjectivity lost and found : Bill Viola's I do not know what it is I am like / Catherine Russell

Mirrors without memories : truth, history, and The thin blue line / Linda Williams

Documentaphobia and mixed modes : Michael Moore's Roger & me / Matthew Bernstein

Silence and its opposite : expressions of race in Tongues untied / Sheila Petty

Containing fire : performance in Paris is burning / Caryl Flinn

Contested territory : Camille Billops and James Hatch's Finding Christa / Julia Lesage

Spike Lee's 4 little girls : the politics of the documentary interview / Paula J. Massood

The gleaners and "us" : the radical modesty of Agnes Varda's Les glaneurs et la glaneuse / Virginia Bonner

"You must never listen to this" : lessons on sound, cinema, and mortality from Werner Herzog's Grizzly man / David T. Johnson

Cultural learnings of Borat for make benefit glorious study of documentary / Leshu Torchin.

Notes:

"This new edition ... adds five essays on more recent films"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814339725

0814339727

OCLC:

923512280