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Documenting the Documentary; Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Barry Keith Grant (Editor), Jeannette (Eds.) Sloniowski, Jeannette Sloniowski
ISBN-13: 9780814326398, ISBN-10: 0814326390
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Date Published: November 1998
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Barry Keith Grant

Book Synopsis

An examination of the developments in the history of documentary filmmaking.

	Foreword	11
	Preface	15
	Acknowledgments	17
	Introduction	19
1	The Filmmaker as Hunter: Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North	23
2	"Peace between Man and Machine": Dziga Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera	40
3	Paradise Regained: Sergei Eisenstein's Que viva Mexico! as Ethnography	55
4	Synthetic Vision: The Dialectical Imperative of Luis Bunuel's Las Hurdes	70
5	The Art of National Projection: Basil Wright's Song of Ceylon	83
6	The Mass Psychology of Fascist Cinema: Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will	99
7	American Documentary Finds Its Voice: Persuasion and Expression in The Plow That Broke the Plains and The City	119
8	"Men Cannot Act before the Camera in the Presence of Death": Joris Ivens's The Spanish Earth	136
9	The Poetics of Propaganda: Humphrey Jennings and Listen to Britain	154
10	"It Was an Atrocious Film": Georges Franju's Blood of the Beasts	171
11	The "Dialogic Imagination" of Jean Rouch: Covert Conversations in Les maitres fous	188
12	Documenting the Ineffable: Terror and Memory in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog	204
13	"Don't You Ever Just Watch?": American Cinema Verite and Dont Look Back	223
14	"Ethnography in the First Person": Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies	238
15	The Two Avant-gardes: Solanas and Getino's The Hour of the Furnaces	254
16	Seeing with Experimental Eyes: Stan Brakhage's The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes	269
17	"A Bastard Union of Several Forms": Style and Narrative in An American Family	286
18	The Documentary of Displaced Persona: Michael Rubbo's Daisy: The Story of a Facelift	302
19	Gender, Power, and a Cucumber: Satirizing Masculinity in This Is Spinal Tap	318
20	Documentary Film and the Discourse of Hysterical/Historical Narrative: Ross McElwee's Sherman's March	333
21	Subjectivity Lost and Found: Bill Viola's I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like	344
22	The Filmmaker as Global Circumnavigator: Peter Watkins's The Journey and Media Critique	360
23	Mirrors without Memories: Truth, History, and The Thin Blue Line	379
24	Documentaphobia and Mixed Modes: Michael Moore's Roger & Me	397
25	Silence and Its Opposite: Expressions of Race in Tongues Untied	416
26	Containing Fire: Performance in Paris Is Burning	429
27	Contested Territory: Camille Billops and James Hatch's Finding Christa	446
	General Bibliography	463
	Sources for Films and Videos	469
	Film and Video Distributors	471
	Contributors	473
	Index	477

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