TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grant,Barry Keith
AU  - Sloniowski,Jeannette
TI  - Documenting the documentary: close readings of documentary film and video 
T2  - Contemporary film and television series
SN  - 0814326390
AV  - PN1995.9.D6 D58 1998
U1  - 070.18 
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - Detroit
PB  - Wayne State University Press
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - 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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