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Subject(s)

• Documentary films—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Grant, Barry Keith, 1947- [Browse]
• Sloniowski, Jeannette, 1946- [Browse]

Writer of supplementary textual content

• Nichols, Bill, 1942- [Browse]

Series

Contemporary approaches to film and media series [More in this series]

Summary note

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

Notes

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

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 México! 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 verité 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 Agnès 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.

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ISBN

• 9780814339718 (pbk.)
• 0814339719 (pbk.)

OCLC

869965329

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