The subject of documentary
By: Michael Renov.
Series: Visible evidence -- v. 16.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780816634408; 9780816634415
Subjects: Documentary films -- History and criticism
Notes: Essays either previously published or previously presented at various conferences.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early newsreel: the construction of a political imaginary for the new left; title: The "real" in fiction: Brecht, Medium cool, and the refusal of incorporation; title: Warring images: stereotype and American representations of the Japanese, 1941-1991; title: Lost, lost, lost: Mekas as essayist; title: Charged vision: the place of desire in documentary film theory; title: The subject in history: the new autobiography in film and video; title: Filling up the hole in the real: death and mourning in contemporary documentary film and video; title: Documentary disavowals and the digital; title: Technology and ethnographic dialogue; title: The address to the other: ethical discourse in Everything's for you; title: Modes of subjectivity; title: New subjectivities: documentary and self-representation in the post-verité age; title: The electronic essay; title: Video confessions; title: Domestic ethnography and the construction of the "other" self; title: The end of autobiography or new beginnings? (or, everything you never knew you would know about someone you will probably never meet).