The subject of documentary /

Renov, Michael, 1950-

The subject of documentary / Michael Renov. - xxiv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - Visible evidence ; v. 16 . - Visible evidence ; v. 16. .

Essays either previously published or previously presented at various conferences.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early newsreel : the construction of a political imaginary for the new left -- The "real" in fiction : Brecht, Medium cool, and the refusal of incorporation -- Warring images : stereotype and American representations of the Japanese, 1941-1991 -- Lost, lost, lost : Mekas as essayist -- Charged vision : the place of desire in documentary film theory -- The subject in history : the new autobiography in film and video -- Filling up the hole in the real : death and mourning in contemporary documentary film and video -- Documentary disavowals and the digital -- Technology and ethnographic dialogue -- The address to the other : ethical discourse in Everything's for you -- New subjectivities : documentary and self-representation in the post-verite age -- The electronic essay -- Video confessions -- Domestic ethnography and the construction of the "other" self -- The end of autobiography or new beginnings? (or, everything, you never knew you would know about someone you will probably never meet). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

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Documentary films--History and criticism

PN1995.9.D6 / R44 2004

070.18

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