Documentary superstars : how today's filmmakers are reinventing the form /
Marsha McCreadie.
- x, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Transforming the Image of Truth -- The Purist and the Peekaboo Documentarian :Frederick Wiseman, Albert Maysles -- The Professor and the Rabble-Rouser : Peter Davis, Michael Moore -- The Practitioner and the Visionary The Charismatic Commenter : Al Gore, Leon Gast, Davis Guggenheim, Christian Slater, Spike Lee -- The Documentarian Gets to Star : Morgan Spurlock, Sydney Pollack, Mark Wexler, Alan Berliner -- The Documentary Filmmaker in the Role of Spoofmeister : Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael Ritchie, Alex Karpovsky, Sacha Baron Cohen -- Happy Hybrids : Kevin Macdonald, Jason Reitman, Peter Morgan, Roy Frunkes -- The New Breed Selects and Mixes Forms : Amir Bar-Lev, Sara Lamm, Grace Lee, Celia Maysles -- It's a Wrap -- Tips and Tricks of the Trade. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.