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Beyond document : essays on nonfiction film / edited by Charles Warren Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1996.
Call No: 761(04) BEYAuthor: Warren, Charles, 1948 Place: Hanover, NHPublisher: University Press of New EnglandPubDate: 1996PhysDes: xxviii, 366 p. : ports. ; 24 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; CINEMA VERITE ; DIRECTORS ; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS ; NEWSREELS ; MEMORY IN FILMS ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS ; GENOCIDE IN FILMS ; WORLD WAR II FILMS ; NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955) ; OPHULS, MARCEL ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; SANS SOLEIL (FR, Chris Marker, 1983) ; SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985) ; TRI PESNI O LENINE (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1934) ; WR MISTERIJE ORGANIZMA (YU/GW, Dusan Makaveyev, 1971) ; BOOMERANG (US, Elia Kazan, 1947) ; VERTOV, DZIGA ; MARKER, CHRIS ; FILM PORTAIT (US, Jerome Hill, 1972) ; GARDNER, ROBERT ; MCELWEE, ROSS ; ZERKALO (UR, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) Summary: "In essays by eleven of America's foremost writers, critics and filmmakers, Beyond Document explores the full spectrum on nonfiction film and its creative possibilities. In addition to Charles Warren's broad introductory history of the genre, the book takes a close look at ethnographic films, cinema verite, memoir and autobiography, docudramas, essay films, and newsreels, from classics like Night and Fog and Nanook of the North to more recent important work like Film about a Woman Who..., Harlan County, U.S.A., Sans Soleil, and Forest of Bliss.
Representations of reality are increasingly contested, in courtrooms and Congress, as well as in art. Asking what the art of film can achieve, Helene Keyssar considers the history of nonfiction films by women; Jay Cantor discusses film investigations of the Holocaust; Patricia Hampl looks at how autobiographical films render experience into narrative; Robert Gardner questions the filmmaker's "impulse to preserve"; and poet Susan Howe explores structures of mourning in several filmmakers. All of the books essays provide deeply felt understandings of documentary film, and of how we live with, and within, images." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-350) and indexISBN: 0819552879 (cl : alk. paper); 0819562904 (pbk. : alk. paper)LON: 11642141Contents: Words of welcome / Stanley Cavell -- Introduction, with a brief history of nonfiction film / Charles Warren -- Death and the image / Jay Cantor -- Memory's movies / Patricia Hampl -- Eternal Verites / William Rothman -- The toil of thought: on several nonfiction films by women / Helene Keyssar -- The camera people / Eliot Weinberger -- The impulse to preserve / Robert Gardner -- You are there / Maureen Howard -- Earth and beyond: Dusan Makaveyev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism / Charles Warren -- In search of the centaur: the essay film / Phillip Lopate -- Vertov's cinematic transposition of reality / Vlada Petric -- Sorting facts; or, nineteen ways of looking at marker / Susan Howe
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Crafting truth : documentary form and meaning / by Louise Spence and Vinicius Navarro New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, c2011.
Call No: 761 SPEAuthor: Spence, Louise ; Navarro, Vinicius Source: US/UKPlace: New Brunswick, NJPublisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: c2011PhysDes: x, 281 p. : ill. ; 26 cmSubject: AESTHETICS ; AUTHORSHIP ; BIOGRAPHICAL FILMS ; CINEMATOGRAPHY ; COMMENTARY ; CONSTRUCTIVISM ; CONTINUITY ; CINEMA-DIRECT ; DOCUMENTARIES ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; EDITING ; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; INTERVIEWING ; INTERVIEWS IN FILMS ; LIGHTING ; LOCATION SHOOTING ; MEMORY IN FILMS ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; NON-FICTION FILMS ; PALESTINE ; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SOUND ; SOUND EQUIPMENT ; THEORY ; TRUTH IN FILMS ; VOICE OVER ; WORLD WAR II AND THE CINEMA ; AFRIQUE, JE TE PLUMERAI (CM/FR/G, Jean-Marie Téno, 1992) ; GOKUSHITEKI EROSU: RENKA 1974 (JA, Kazuo Hara, 1974) ; FAR FROM POLAND (US, Jill Godmilow, 1984) ; HALVING THE BONES (US, Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury, 1995) ; HANDSWORTH SONGS (UK, John Akomfrah, 1986) ; HEARTS AND MINDS (US, Peter Davis, 1974) ; JOYCE AT 34 (US, Joyce Chopra, 1972) ; LESSONS OF DARKNESS (GG, Werner Herzog, 1992) ; LEKTIONEN IN FINSTERNIS (GG, Werner Herzog, 1992) ; LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER, THE (US, Connie Field, 1980) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) ; NEKAM ACHAT MISHTEY EYNAY (FR/IS, Avi Mograbi, 2005) ; NIGHT MAIL (UK, Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 1936) ; PRELUDE TO WAR (US, Frank Capra & Anatole Litvak, 1942) ; SANS SOLEIL (FR, Chris Marker, 1983) ; SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985) ; TIES THAT BIND, THE (US, Su Friedrich, 1984) ; TITICUT FOLLIES (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1967) ; WAR GAME, THE (UK, Peter Watkins, 1966) Summary: "Although nonfiction film may have captured imaginations, many viewers enter and leave theaters with a naive concept of "reality"- for them, documentaries are sources of information. But is truth or reality readily available, easily acquired, or undisputed? Or do documentaries convey illusions of reality? What aesthetic means are used to build these illusions?
Crafting truth illuminates the way these films tell their stories; how they use the camera, editing, sound, and performance; what rhetorical devices they employ; and what the theoretical, practical, and ethical implications of those choices are. Complex documentary concepts are presented through easily accessible language, images, and a discussion of a wide range of films and videos to encourage new ways of thinking about and seeing nonfiction cinema. " -- BOOK BLURBISBN: 9780813549033Contents: -- acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Authenticity -- Evidence -- Authority --
Responsibility -- Argument -- Dramatic stories, poetic and essay documentaries --
Editing -- Camerawork -- The profilmic -- Sounds / coauthored with Carl Lewis --index --ID2: 90
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Imagining reality : the Faber book of the documentary / [edited by] Kevin Macdonald and Mark Cousins London: Faber and Faber, 1996.
Call No: 761 MACAuthor: Macdonald, Kevin, 1967- ; Cousins, Mark Place: LondonPublisher: Faber and FaberPubDate: 1996PhysDes: xii, 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; CINEMA VERITE ; CINEMA-DIRECT ; GENOCIDE IN FILMS ; NEWSREELS ; PROPAGANDA FILMS ; SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS ; WAR IN FILMS ; VERTOV, DZIGA ; ROUCH, JEAN ; IMAMURA, SHOHEI ; KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF ; MALLE, LOUIS ; MARKER, CHRIS ; OPHULS, MARCEL ; Grierson, John ; HUSTON, JOHN ; ANDERSON, LINDSAY ; BUNUEL, LUIS ; ALVAREZ, SANTIAGO ; ANTONIO, EMILE DE ; BALAZS, BELA ; BLUE, JAMES ; BROOMFIELD, NICK ; CAVALCANTI, ALBERTO ; COLINA, JOSE DE LA ; COOPER, MERIAN C. ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; FLAHERTY, ROBERT ; IVENS, JORIS ; IWASAKI, AKIRA ; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY ; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL ; KAUL, MANI ; LANZMANN, CLAUDE ; LEACOCK, RICHARD ; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID ; MORRIS, ERROL ; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI ; SCHELL, MAXIMILIAN ; SHUB, ESTHER ; TSUCHIMOTO, NORIAKI ; WISEMAN, FREDERICK ; WRIGHT, BASIL ; TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935) ; WITH LAWRENCE IN ARABIA (US, Lowell Thomas, 1919) ; PHANTOM INDIA [INDE FANTOME, L'] [TV] (FR, Louis Malle, 1969) ; LET THERE BE LIGHT (US, John Huston, 1946) ; MARLENE (GW, Maximilian Schell, 1984) ; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922) ; NIGHT MAIL (UK, Harry Watt & Basil Wright, 1936) ; REGEN (NE, Joris Ivens, 1929) ; SONG OF CEYLON (UK, Basil Wright, 1934) ; SPANISH EARTH, THE (US, Joris Ivens, 1937) ; THIN BLUE LINE, THE (US, Errol Morris, 1988) ; SANS SOLEIL (FR, Chris Marker, 1983) ; SHOAH (FR/SZ, Claude Lanzmann, 1985) ; A PROPOS DE NICE (FR, Jean Vigo, 1930) ; CRUMB (US, Terry Zwigoff, 1994) ; HOUSING PROBLEMS (UK, Edgar Anstey & Arthur Elton, 1935) ; YUKI YUKITE SHINGUN (JA, Kazuo Hara, 1987) ; FIRST LOVE (US, Joan Darling, 1977) ; GIMME SHELTER (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1970) ; HOOP DREAMS (US, Steve James, 1994) ; LAS HURDES (SP, Luis Bunuel, 1932) Summary: Imagining Reality takes the reader on a tour of the evolution of documentary film as an increasingly vibrant, polemical, experimental and entertaining form. It gathers a wide-ranging collection of writings by and about such groundbreaking documentary-makers as Vertov, Flaherty, Marcel Ophuls, Chris Marker, Kieslowski, Claude Lanzmann, and Nick Broomfield.
The story is carried up to date by attention to the success documentaries have had among mainstream movie audiences in recent years, including Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, The Buena Vista Social Club, Spellbound, Capturing The Friedmans, Être Et Avoir, and The Fog Of War. --TAKEN FROM PUBLISHER'S SITENotes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Faber book of the documentaryISBN: 0571177239LON: 13068333Contents: Part 1. -- 1.The Kingdom of Shadows -- 2. Going to Extremes -- 3. Kino Eyes and Agit Trains -- 4. Documentary and the Avante Guarde -- Part 2. -- 5. The British Movement -- 6. Battling for minds -- 7. Aspects of Asia -- Part 3. -- 8. The Essayists -- 9. The Grain of Truth -- Part 4. -- 10. The Cinema of Social Concern -- 11. Diversity -- 12. The Burning QuestionID2: 47
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Narrative comprehension and film / Edward Branigan London New York: Routledge, 1992.
Call No: 632 BRAAuthor: Branigan, Edward Richard, 1945 Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1992PhysDes: xv, 325 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; LADY FROM SHANGHAI, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1948) ; SANS SOLEIL (FR, Chris Marker, 1983) ; GIRL AND HER TRUST, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1912) ; HANGOVER SQUARE (US, John Brahm, 1945) ; LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (US, Max Ophuls, 1948) ; LADY IN THE LAKE (US, Robert Montgomery, 1946) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-306) and indexISBN: 0415075122 (pbk.); 0415075114LON: 8202041
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Sunless / Sans soleil / Jon Kear Trowbridge: Flicks Books, 1999.
Call No: 79 SUN KEAAuthor: Kear, Jon Edition: 1999Place: TrowbridgePublisher: Flicks BooksPubDate: 1999PhysDes: 60 pages : illustrated ; 21 cmSeries: CinetekSubject: SANS SOLEIL (FR, Chris Marker, 1983) ISBN: 0948911379Donation: Sue Hardisty
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