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