Documenting the documentary
Subtitle: close readings of documentary film and video
By: with a foreword by Bill Nichols ; edited by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski
Edition: New and expanded edition.
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media series; Contemporary approaches to film and media series
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9780814339718
Subjects: Documentary films; History and criticism
Description: Anthology of essays on the artistic and persuasive aspects of documentary film from a range of critical viewpoints.
Notes: "This new edition ... adds five essays on more recent films"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-548) and index.
Table of contents: title: The filmmaker as hunter : Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the north / William Rothman; title: "Peace between man and machine" : Dziga Vertov's Man with a movie camera / Seth Feldman; title: Paradise regained : Sergei Eisenstein's Que viva México! as ethnography / Joanne Hershfield; title: Synthetic vision : the dialectical imperative of Luis Buñuel's Las hurdes / Vivian Sobchack; title: The art of national projection : Basil Wright's Song of Ceylon / William Guynn; title: The mass psychology of fascist cinema : Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the will / Frank P. Tomasulo; title: American documentary finds its voice : persuasion and expression in The plow that broke the plains and the city / Charlie Keil; title: "Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death" : Joris Ivens's The Spanish earth / Thomas Waugh; title: The poetics of propaganda : Humphrey Jennings and Listen to Britain / Jim Leach; title: "It was an atrocious film" : Georges Franju's Blood of the beasts / Jeannette Sloniowski; title: The "dialogic imagination" of Jean Rouch : covert conversations in Les maîtres fous / Diane Scheinman; title: Documenting the ineffable : terror and memory in Alain Resnais's Night and fog / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis; title: Making the past present : Peter Watkins's Culloden / John R. Cook; title: "Don't you ever just watch?" : American cinema verité and Dont look back / Jeanne Hall; title: "Ethnography in the first person" : Frederick Wiseman's Titicut follies / Barry Keith Grant; title: The two avant-gardes : Solanas and Getino's The hour of the furnaces / Robert Stam; title: Seeing with experimental eyes : Stan Brakhage's The act of seeing with one's own eyes / Bart Testa; title: "A bastard union of several forms" : style and narrative in An American family / Jeffrey K. Ruoff; title: The documentary of displaced persona : Michael Rubbo's Daisy, the story of a facelift / Joan Nicks; title: Gender, power, and a cucumber : satirizing masculinity in This is spinal tap / Carl Plantinga; title: Documentary film and the discourse of hysterical/historical narrative : Ross McElwee's Sherman's march / Lucy Fischer; title: Subjectivity lost and found : Bill Viola's I do not know what it is I am like / Catherine Russell; title: Mirrors without memories : truth, history, and The thin blue line / Linda Williams; title: Documentaphobia and mixed modes : Michael Moore's Roger & me / Matthew Bernstein; title: Silence and its opposite : expressions of race in Tongues untied / Sheila Petty; title: Containing fire : performance in Paris is burning / Caryl Flinn; title: Contested territory : Camille Billops and James Hatch's Finding Christa / Julia Lesage; title: Spike Lee's 4 little girls : the politics of the documentary interview / Paula J. Massood; title: The gleaners and "us" : the radical modesty of Agnès Varda's Les glaneurs et la glaneuse / Virginia Bonner; title: "You must never listen to this" : lessons on sound, cinema, and mortality from Werner Herzog's Grizzly man / David T. Johnson; title: Cultural learnings of Borat for make benefit glorious study of documentary / Leshu Torchin.