Theorizing documentary
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Theorizing documentary
（AFI film readers）
Routledge, 1993
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 227-245
Filmography: p. 247-251
Bibliography and filmography compiled by Harry M. Benshoff
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780415903813
Description
"Theorizing Documentary" addresses a wide range of theoretical issues specific to the documentary form. Documentaries encompass a wide range of forms, educational TV, personality profiles, ethnography, cine-poems, polemic tracts, and autobiography. What unites them is their common bond with the domain of lived experience. Today, as fictional and non-fictional forms become increasingly hybrid (TV docu-drama, historically-based feature films such as Oliver Stone's "JFK", "info-tainment", tabloid television), the question "What is documentary?" is particularly compelling. "Theorizing Documentary" offers essays by leading critics and theorists, addressing questions such as: How fictional is non-fiction? What gets to count on film as history - and why? To what extent are representational forms adequate substitutions for social historical phenomena? Can one culture (or subculture) ever be translated for another? How can the documentarist prevent the spectator from conflating real life and the film's fabricated reality?
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: pbk ISBN 9780415903820
Description
A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form. Questions addressed include `What is documentary?' and `How fictional is nonfiction?'
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction, Michael Renov
- Chapter 2 Toward a Poetics of Documentary, Michael Renov
- Chapter 3 The Documentary Film as Scientific Inscription, Brian Winston
- Chapter 4 Document and Documentary, Philip Rosen
- Chapter 5 ), pp. 29-50., Trinh T. Minh-ha
- Chapter 6 Jargons of Authenticity (Three American Moments), Paul Arthur
- Chapter 7 Constantly Performing the Documentary, Susan Scheibler
- Chapter 8 (Not) Looking for Origins, Ana M. Lopez
- Chapter 9 Notes on AIDS and its Combatants, Bill Horrigan
- Chapter 10 "Getting to Know You...", Bill Nichols
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