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Documenting the documentary : close readings of documentary film and video / edited by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary film and television seriesPublisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 488 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0814326390
  • 9780814326398
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.18
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.D6 D58 1998
Contents:
Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Filmmaker as Hunter: Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North -- 2. "Peace between Man and Machine": Dziga Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera -- 3. Paradise Regained: Sergei Eisenstein's Que viva Mexico! as Ethnography -- 4. Synthetic Vision: The Dialectical Imperative of Luis Bunuel's Las Hurdes -- 5. The Art of National Projection: Basil Wright's Song of Ceylon -- 6. The Mass Psychology of Fascist Cinema: Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will -- 7. American Documentary Finds Its Voice: Persuasion and Expression in The Plow That Broke the Plains and The City -- 8. "Men Cannot Act before the Camera in the Presence of Death": Joris Ivens's The Spanish Earth -- 9. The Poetics of Propaganda: Humphrey Jennings and Listen to Britain -- 10. "It Was an Atrocious Film": Georges Franju's Blood of the Beasts -- 11. The "Dialogic Imagination" of Jean Rouch: Covert Conversations in Les maitres fous -- 12. Documenting the Ineffable: Terror and Memory in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog -- 13. "Don't You Ever Just Watch?": American Cinema Verite and Dont Look Back -- 14. "Ethnography in the First Person": Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies -- 15. The Two Avant-gardes: Solanas and Getino's The Hour of the Furnaces -- 16. Seeing with Experimental Eyes: Stan Brakhage's The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes -- 17. "A Bastard Union of Several Forms": Style and Narrative in An American Family -- 18. The Documentary of Displaced Persona: Michael Rubbo's Daisy: The Story of a Facelift -- 19. Gender, Power, and a Cucumber: Satirizing Masculinity in This Is Spinal Tap -- 20. Documentary Film and the Discourse of Hysterical/Historical Narrative: Ross McElwee's Sherman's March -- 21. Subjectivity Lost and Found: Bill Viola's I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like -- 22. The Filmmaker as Global Circumnavigator: Peter Watkins's The Journey and Media Critique -- 23. Mirrors without Memories: Truth, History, and The Thin Blue Line -- 24. Documentaphobia and Mixed Modes: Michael Moore's Roger & Me -- 25. Silence and Its Opposite: Expressions of Race in Tongues Untied -- 26. Containing Fire: Performance in Paris Is Burning -- 27. Contested Territory: Camille Billops and James Hatch's Finding Christa -- General Bibliography -- Sources for Films and Videos -- Film and Video Distributors -- Contributors -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Filmmaker as Hunter: Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North -- 2. "Peace between Man and Machine": Dziga Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera -- 3. Paradise Regained: Sergei Eisenstein's Que viva Mexico! as Ethnography -- 4. Synthetic Vision: The Dialectical Imperative of Luis Bunuel's Las Hurdes -- 5. The Art of National Projection: Basil Wright's Song of Ceylon -- 6. The Mass Psychology of Fascist Cinema: Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will -- 7. American Documentary Finds Its Voice: Persuasion and Expression in The Plow That Broke the Plains and The City -- 8. "Men Cannot Act before the Camera in the Presence of Death": Joris Ivens's The Spanish Earth -- 9. The Poetics of Propaganda: Humphrey Jennings and Listen to Britain -- 10. "It Was an Atrocious Film": Georges Franju's Blood of the Beasts -- 11. The "Dialogic Imagination" of Jean Rouch: Covert Conversations in Les maitres fous -- 12. Documenting the Ineffable: Terror and Memory in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog -- 13. "Don't You Ever Just Watch?": American Cinema Verite and Dont Look Back -- 14. "Ethnography in the First Person": Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies -- 15. The Two Avant-gardes: Solanas and Getino's The Hour of the Furnaces -- 16. Seeing with Experimental Eyes: Stan Brakhage's The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes -- 17. "A Bastard Union of Several Forms": Style and Narrative in An American Family -- 18. The Documentary of Displaced Persona: Michael Rubbo's Daisy: The Story of a Facelift -- 19. Gender, Power, and a Cucumber: Satirizing Masculinity in This Is Spinal Tap -- 20. Documentary Film and the Discourse of Hysterical/Historical Narrative: Ross McElwee's Sherman's March -- 21. Subjectivity Lost and Found: Bill Viola's I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like -- 22. The Filmmaker as Global Circumnavigator: Peter Watkins's The Journey and Media Critique -- 23. Mirrors without Memories: Truth, History, and The Thin Blue Line -- 24. Documentaphobia and Mixed Modes: Michael Moore's Roger & Me -- 25. Silence and Its Opposite: Expressions of Race in Tongues Untied -- 26. Containing Fire: Performance in Paris Is Burning -- 27. Contested Territory: Camille Billops and James Hatch's Finding Christa -- General Bibliography -- Sources for Films and Videos -- Film and Video Distributors -- Contributors -- Index.

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