Documenting the documentary : close readings of documentary film and video / edited by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski ; with a foreword by Bill Nichols.
Anthology of essays on the artistic and persuasive aspects of documentary film from a range of critical viewpoints.
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[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- The filmmaker as hunter : Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the north / William Rothman
- "Peace between man and machine" : Dziga Vertov's Man with a movie camera / Seth Feldman
- Paradise regained : Sergei Eisenstein's Que viva México! as ethnography / Joanne Hershfield
- Synthetic vision : the dialectical imperative of Luis Buñuel's Las hurdes / Vivian Sobchack
- The art of national projection : Basil Wright's Song of Ceylon / William Guynn
- The mass psychology of fascist cinema : Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the will / Frank P. Tomasulo
- American documentary finds its voice : persuasion and expression in The plow that broke the plains and the city / Charlie Keil
- "Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death" : Joris Ivens's The Spanish earth / Thomas Waugh
- The poetics of propaganda : Humphrey Jennings and Listen to Britain / Jim Leach
- "It was an atrocious film" : Georges Franju's Blood of the beasts / Jeannette Sloniowski
- The "dialogic imagination" of Jean Rouch : covert conversations in Les maîtres fous / Diane Scheinman
- Documenting the ineffable : terror and memory in Alain Resnais's Night and fog / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
- Making the past present : Peter Watkins's Culloden / John R. Cook
- "Don't you ever just watch?" : American cinema verité and Dont look back / Jeanne Hall
- "Ethnography in the first person" : Frederick Wiseman's Titicut follies / Barry Keith Grant
- The two avant-gardes : Solanas and Getino's The hour of the furnaces / Robert Stam
- Seeing with experimental eyes : Stan Brakhage's The act of seeing with one's own eyes / Bart Testa
- "A bastard union of several forms" : style and narrative in An American family / Jeffrey K. Ruoff
- The documentary of displaced persona : Michael Rubbo's Daisy, the story of a facelift / Joan Nicks
- Gender, power, and a cucumber : satirizing masculinity in This is spinal tap / Carl Plantinga
- Documentary film and the discourse of hysterical/historical narrative : Ross McElwee's Sherman's march / Lucy Fischer
- Subjectivity lost and found : Bill Viola's I do not know what it is I am like / Catherine Russell
- Mirrors without memories : truth, history, and The thin blue line / Linda Williams
- Documentaphobia and mixed modes : Michael Moore's Roger & me / Matthew Bernstein
- Silence and its opposite : expressions of race in Tongues untied / Sheila Petty
- Containing fire : performance in Paris is burning / Caryl Flinn
- Contested territory : Camille Billops and James Hatch's Finding Christa / Julia Lesage
- Spike Lee's 4 little girls : the politics of the documentary interview / Paula J. Massood
- The gleaners and "us" : the radical modesty of Agnès Varda's Les glaneurs et la glaneuse / Virginia Bonner
- "You must never listen to this" : lessons on sound, cinema, and mortality from Werner Herzog's Grizzly man / David T. Johnson
- Cultural learnings of Borat for make benefit glorious study of documentary / Leshu Torchin.