Documenting the documentary : close readings of documentary film and video / edited by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Contemporary film and television series.
Other Authors: Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-
Sloniowski, Jeannette, 1946-
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [1998], ©1998.
Series:Contemporary film and television series.
Subjects:
Physical Description:488 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Filmmaker as hunter / William Rothman
  • Peace between man and machine / Seth Feldman
  • Paradise regained : Sergei Eisenstein's que viva Mexico! As ethnography / Joanne Hershfield
  • Synthetic vision : the dialectical imperative of Luis Buñuel's Las Hurdes / Vivian Sobchack
  • Art of national projection / William Guynn - - Mass psychology of fascist cinema : Leni Riefenstahl's triumph of the will / Frank P. Tomasulo
  • American documentary finds its voice / Charlie Keil
  • Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death : Joris Ivens's the Spanish earth / Thomas Waugh
  • Poetics of propaganda / Jim Leach
  • It was an atrocious film / Jeannette Sloniowski
  • Dialogic imagination of Jean Rouch / Diane Scheinman
  • Documenting the ineffable / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
  • Don't you ever just watch? / Jeanne Hall
  • Ethnography in the first person / Barry Keith Grant
  • Two avant-gardes / Robert Stam
  • Seeing with experimental eyes / Bart Testa
  • Bastard union of several forms / Jeffrey K. Ruoff
  • Documentary of displaced persona / Joan Nicks
  • Gender, power, and a cucumber / Carl Plantinga
  • Documentary film and the discourse of hysterical/historical narrative / Lucy Fischer
  • Subjectivity lost and found / Catherine Russell
  • Filmmaker as global circumnavigator / Scott MacDonald
  • Mirrors without memories / Linda Williams
  • Documentaphobia and mixed modes / Matthew Bernstein
  • Silence and its opposite / Sheila Petty
  • Containing fire / Caryl Flinn
  • Contested territory / Julia Lesage.