New nonfiction film : art, poetics, and documentary theory / Dara Waldron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldron, Dara, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films--History and criticism.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is the first book to offer a lengthy examination of the relationship between fiction and documentary from the perspective of art and poetics. The premise of the book is to propose a new category of nonfiction film that is distinguished from - as opposed to being conflated with - the documentary film in its multiple historical guises; a premise explored in case-studies of films by distinguished artists and filmmakers (Abbas Kiarostami, Ben Rivers, Chantal Akerman, Ben Russell Pat Collins and Gideon Koppel). The book builds a case for this new category of film, calling it the 'new nonfiction film,' and argues, in the process, that this kind of film works to dismantle the old distinctions between fiction and documentary film and therefore the axioms of Film and Cinema Studies as a discipline of study."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

New Nonfiction Film

A Certain Ratio (of Negation)

Acts of Experimentation . . .

Nonfiction as a Speculative Mode of Inquiry: Subjectivity and the Films of Ben Rivers and Ben Russell

Not Documentary . . .

The Mechanistic "In Itself"

the Speculative Treatment of Subjectivity

1.A Film About a Film Within a Film Adapted from a Short Story . . .

A Marriage of Form and Content

"I Don't Care about the Other. I am the Other."

2. (Self as) Modèle Environments: Nonfiction Film

Into the Abyss

"What"- "Who"

3. The Utopian Promise: John Akomfrah's Poetics of the Archive

The Time of Nonfiction

A Poet (in and) of the Archive

Back to a Future

The Time for Promises

Conclusion

4. "In My Mind, My Dreams are Real": Abbas Kiarostami and the Roots of New Nonfiction Film

Before the Law

The Becoming Reality of Fiction

Kiarostami Meets Errol Morris

Makhmalbaf Meets Sabzian

Now, it's Nothing but Flowers

Real Traumas

Traumas of the Real: The Koker Trilogy

The Marriage of Fiction and Non-Fiction

5. After Kiarostami: Cinemas of (Speculative) Nonfiction

Cinema of Trauma

Trauma and Speculative Nonfiction

In Search of the In-Itself

A Documentary Fallacy

The Earth Won't Listen

6. Nonfiction, the Cognitive Turn, and Chantal Akerman's D'Est (1993)

Bordering on Fiction

The Displaced m(Other)

Metal Repairs

7. The Poetic Mode, Depiction and Nonfiction: Sense- Value and Gideon Koppel's Sleep Furiously(2007)

To Document . . . (or) . . . to Depict

To Speak or Not to Speak: The Double Entendre

The Art of the Document

Cinema Will Save Us

The Three S's

A Final Note

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index.

ISBN:

9781501322525

1501322524

9781501322518

1501322516

9781501322501

1501322508

OCLC:

1038716817