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Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Press kit
Subject: CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929)

Call No: 79CEL PET
Author: Petric, Vlada
Place: Cambridge New York
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: xii, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Cambridge studies in film
Subject: VERTOV, DZIGA; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Notes: Filmography: p. 213-220; Includes bibliographies and index
ISBN: 0521321743
LON: bnb52132174; 4636285

Call No: 761 BAR
Author: Barnouw, Erik, 1908
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: vi, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS; COMPILATION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. US; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; CINEMA VERITE; NAZIS IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. FRANCE; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; GPO FILM UNIT; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; GRIERSON, JOHN; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MURROW, EDWARD R.; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WRIGHT, BASIL; SUCKSDORFF, ARNE; MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); AMERICAN DREAM (US, Barbara Kopple, 1990); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Basil Wright & Harry Watt, 1936); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); SONG OF CEYLON, THE (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44)
Summary: Barnouw traces the documentary from its beginning at the dawn of film history - the work of the Lumiere brothers - to the remarkable group of films that have portrayed the Vietnam war. Films are placed within their broader social perspective, and Barnouw traces filmmaking developments in a single country to global uptake. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of governments and large corporations on the content of films. The book covers television documentary, direct cinema, cinema verite as well as film-makers dealing with exploration, animals, aspects of war, human behaviour, social problems and propaganda. Such diverse film-makers as Flaherty, Vertov, Grierson, Ivens, Lorentz, Jennings, Sucksdorff, Rouch, Leacock, and the Maysles are included.
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [297]-311
ISBN: 0195018354 : $10.95
LON: 74079618; 462942

Call No: 761 BAR
Author: Barnouw, Erik, 1908
Edition: 2nd rev. ed
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1993
PhysDes: 400 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; COMPILATION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USA; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; NAZIS IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. FRANCE; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; GPO FILM UNIT; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; Grierson, John; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MURROW, EDWARD R.; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WRIGHT, BASIL; SUCKSDORFF, ARNE; MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); AMERICAN DREAM (US, Barbara Kopple, 1990); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Basil Wright & Harry Watt, 1936); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); SONG OF CEYLON (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44)
Summary: This is the second revised edition of Documentary: A History of the Non-fiction Film. Barnouw traces the documentary from its beginning at the dawn of film history - the work of the Lumiere brothers - to the remarkable group of films that have portrayed the Vietnam war. Films are placed within their broader social perspective, and Barnouw traces filmmaking developments in a single country to global uptake. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of governments and large corporations on the content of films. The book covers television documentary, direct cinema, cinema verite as well as film-makers dealing with exploration, animals, aspects of war, human behaviour, social problems and propaganda. Such diverse film-makers as Flaherty, Vertov, Grierson, Ivens, Lorentz, Jennings, Sucksdorff, Rouch, Leacock, and the Maysles are included.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-375) and index
ISBN: 0195078985 (pbk. : acid-free paper) : $10.95
LON: 9430204

Call No: 761 BAR
Author: Barnouw, Eric
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: 332 p. ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; ARCHIVES & INSTITUTES, FILM; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS; CINEMA VERITE; COMPILATION FILMS; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USA; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS; CINEMA-DIRECT; NAZIS IN FILMS; NEWSREELS; POETRY AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. FRANCE; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. JAPAN; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. UK; OLYMPICS IN FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WORLD WAR II FILMS; SHELL FILM UNIT [AUSTRALIA]; EMPIRE MARKETING BOARD; GPO FILM UNIT; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; REISZ, KAREL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; CAPRA, FRANK; Grierson, John; IVENS, JORIS; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY; KAUFMAN, MIKHAIL; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID; MURROW, EDWARD R.; LUMIERE, AUGUSTE & LOUIS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WRIGHT, BASIL; SUCKSDORFF, ARNE; MOANA (US, Robert Flaherty, 1926); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BACK OF BEYOND, THE (AT, John Heyer, 1953); AMERICAN DREAM (US, Barbara Kopple, 1990); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); NIGHT MAIL (UK, Basil Wright & Harry Watt, 1936); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); SALESMAN (US, David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969); SONG OF CEYLON, THE (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44)
Summary: Barnouw traces the documentary from its beginning at the dawn of film history - the work of the Lumiere brothers - to the remarkable group of films that have portrayed the Vietnam war. Films are placed within their broader social perspective, and Barnouw traces filmmaking developments in a single country to global uptake. Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of governments and large corporations on the content of films. The book covers television documentary, direct cinema, cinema verite as well as film-makers dealing with exploration, animals, aspects of war, human behaviour, social problems and propaganda. Such diverse film-makers as Flaherty, Vertov, Grierson, Ivens, Lorentz, Jennings, Sucksdorff, Rouch, Leacock, and the Maysles are included.
ISBN: 0195018354
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
Contents: -- 1: glimpse of wonders -- 2: images at work -- 3: sound and fury -- 4: clouded lens -- sharp focus -- afterword -- source notes -- bibliography -- index --

Call No: 761 DOC
Author: Winston, Brian
CorpAuthor: British Film Institute
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2013
PhysDes: 416 pages ; 25 cm
Subject: AFRICA; ART CINEMA; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; BLACK CINEMA; BRAZIL; CINEMA-DIRECT; CINEMA VERITE; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; ETHICS AND THE CINEMA; ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; HISTORY ON TV; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; ISRAEL; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; PALESTINE; POLITICAL FILMS; RACE AND THE CINEMA; REVOLUTIONARY THEMES IN FILMS; MOVEMENTS IN FILM HISTORY; REALITY TV; GRIERSON, JOHN; MOORE, MICHAEL; VERTOV, DZIGA; AFRICA RISING (US, Paula Heredia, 2009); AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER (UK, Nick Bloomfield & Joan Churchill, 2003); CHRONIQUE D' UN ETE (FR, Jean Rouch/Edgar Morin, 1961); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922)
Summary: Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never been more popular than it is today. Edited by one of the leading British authorities in the field, The Documentary Film Book is an essential guide to current thinking on documentary film. In a series of fascinating essays, key international experts discuss the theory of documentary, outline current understandings of its history (from pre-Flaherty to the post-Griersonian world of digital 'i-Docs'), survey documentary production (from Africa to Europe, and from the Americas to Asia), consider documentaries by marginalised minority communities, and assess its contribution to other disciplines and arts. Brought together here in one volume, these scholars offer compelling evidence as to why, over the last few decades, documentary has come to the centre of screen studies. -- BOOK BLURB
ISBN: 9781844573417
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword: Why Documentaries Matter -- Introduction: The Filmed Documentary --; PART I: DOCUMENTARY VALUES -- The Question of Evidence, the Power of Rhetoric and Documentary Film: Bill Nichols -- 'I'll Believe It When I Trust the Source': Documentary Images and Visual Evidence: Carl Plantinga -- 'The Performance Documentary': The Performing Film-Maker, the Acting Subject: Stella Bruzzi -- On Truth, Objectivity and Partisanship: The Case of Michael Moore: Douglas Kellner -- CGI and the End of Photography as Evidence: Taylor Downing -- Drawn From Life: The Animated Documentary: Andy Glynne -- Dramadoc? Docudrama? The Limits and Protocols of a Televisual Form: Derek Paget -- Ambiguous Audiences: Annette Hill -- Life As Narrativised: Brian Winston -- The Dance of Documentary Ethics: Pratap Rughani -- Deaths, Transfigurations and the Future: John Corner --; PART II: DOCUMENTARY PARADIGMS -- Problems in Historiography: The Documentary Tradition Before Nanook of the North: Charles Musser -- John Grierson and the Documentary Film Movement: Ian Aitken -- Challenges For Change: Canada's National Film Board: Thomas Waugh and Ezra Winton -- Grierson's Legacies: Australia and New Zealand: Deane Williams -- New Deal Documentary and the North Atlantic Welfare State: Zoe Druick and Jonathan Kahana -- The Triumph of Observationalism: Direct Cinema in the USA: Dave Saunders -- Russian and Soviet Documentary: From Vertov to Sokurov: Ian Christie -- The Radical Tradition in Documentary Film-making, 1920s–50s: Bert Hogenkamp -- Le Groupe des trente: The Poetic Tradition: Elena Von Kassel Siambani -- Cinéma Vérité: Vertov Revisited: Genevieve Van Cauwenberge -- Beyond Sobriety: Documentary Diversions: Craig Hight --; PART III: DOCUMENTARY HORIZONS -- Eastwards: Abe Mark Nornes -- Africa N.: Frank Ukadike -- Images From the South: Contemporary Documentary in Argentina and Brazil: Ana Amado and Maria Dora Mourao -- 'Roadblock' Films, 'Children's Resistance' Films and 'Blood Relations' Films: Israeli and Palestinian Documentary Post-Intifada: Il Raya Morag -- Sacred, Mundane and Absurd Revelations of the Everyday – Poetic Vérité in the Eastern European Tradition; Susanna Helke --; PART IV: DOCUMENTARY VOICES -- First-Person Political: Alisa Lebow -- Feminist Documentaries: Finding, Seeing and Using Them: Julia Lesage -- Pioneers of Black Documentary Film: Pearl Bowser -- LGTBs' Documentary Identity: Christopher Pullen -- Docusoaps: The Ordinary Voice as Popular Entertainment: Richard Kilborn -- Reality TV: A Sign of the Times?: Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn --; PART V: DOCUMENTARY DISCIPLINES -- Anthropology: The Evolution of Ethnographic Film: Paul Henley -- Science, Society and Documentary: Tim Boon -- History Documentaries for Television: Ann Gray -- Music, Documentary, Music Documentary: Michael Chanan -- Art, Documentary as Art; Michael Renov --; PART VI: DOCUMENTARY FUTURES -- Documentary as Open Space: Helen de Michiel and Patricia R. Zimmermann -- 'This Great Mapping of Ourselves': New Documentary Forms Online: John Dovey and Mandy Rose -- New Platforms for 'Docmedia': 'Varient of a Manifesto': Peter Wintonick --; Afterword: The Unchanging Question: Brian Winston -- Index

Call No: 761 BEA
Author: Beattie, Keith
Source: UK
Place: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 276 p ; 21cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES IN FILM; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; CINEMA VERITE; CINEMA-DIRECT; JOURNALISTS, FILM; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV; REALITY TV; TABLOID JOURNALISM; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM; NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA; NATIONAL INDIGENOUS DOCUMENTARY FUND; NBC TELEVISION NETWORK; PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE; NETWORK TEN; VIDEODISCS; GRANADA; IMAX; INDEPENDENT TELEVISION COMMISSION; INTERACTIVE TV; MUSIC TELEVISION; TELEVISION JOURNALISTS; BUERK, MICHEAL; CAVADINI, ALESSANDRO; DE ANTONIO, EMILE; DREW, ROBERT; DYLAN, BOB; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; GRIERSON, JOHN; LEACOCK, RICHARD; LORENTZ, PARE; MAYSLES, ALBERT; MAYSLES, DAVID; MCELWEE, ROSS; MOORE, MICHAEL; MORIN, EDGAR; O'ROURKE, DENNIS; PENNEBAKER, D. A.; PILGER, JOHN; ROUCH, JEAN; RUTTMAN, WALTER; TAJIRI, REA; VERTOV, DZIGA; ATOMIC CAFE, THE (US, Kevin Rafferty & Jane Loader & Pierce Rafferty, 1982); CHEQUER-BOARD [TV] (AT, 1969-1975); FOUR CORNERS [TV] (AT, 1961-); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); BERLIN DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSTADT (G, Walter Ruttman, 1927); BIG BROTHER [TV] (AT, 2001); BIGGIE AND TUPAC (US, Nick Broomfield, 2001); BILL, THE [TV] (UK, 1984-); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE (US/CA, Michael Moore, 2002); BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (GG/US, Wim Wenders, 1999); CAMBODIA: YEAR ZERO (AT, John Pilger, 1989); CANE TOADS : AN UNNATURAL HISTORY (AT, Mark Lewis, 1987); CANNIBAL TOURS (AT, Dennis O' Rourke, 1987); CATHY COME HOME (UK, Ken Loach, 1966); CHRONIQUE D' UN ETE (FR, Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin, 1961); COPS AND ROBBERSONS (US, Michael Ritchie, 1994); CROCODILE DUNDEE (AT, Peter Faiman, 1986); CUNNAMULLA (AT, Dennis O'Rourke, 2000); DEATH OF A PRINCESS [TV] (UK/US/NZ/AT/NE, Antony Thomas, 1980); DISMISSAL, THE [TV] (AT, George T. Miller & others, 1983); DON'T LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967); GOOD WOMAN OF BANGKOK, THE (AT, Dennis O'Rourke, 1991); LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER, THE (US, Connie Field, 1980); MABO: LIFE OF AN ISLAND MAN (AT, Trevor Graham, 1997); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); MONTEREY POP (US, D. A. Pennebaker, 1968); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); POLICE STATE (AT, Chris Noonan, 1989); SYLVANIA WATERS [TV] (AT, Brian Hill & Kate Woods, 1993); WALKING WITH DINOSAURS[TV] (UK, 1999); WAR GAME, THE (UK, Peter Watkins, 1966)
Summary: Documentary Screens is a comprehensive and critical examination of the formal features and histories of central categories of documentary film and television. Among the categories examined are autobiographical, indigenous and ethnographic documentary, compilation films, direct cinema and cinema verite and television documentary journalism. The book also considers recent so called popular factual entertainment and the future of documentary film, television and new media. [Taken from back cover].
ISBN: 033374117X
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Call No: 761 DOC
Author: Grant, Barry Keith; Sloniowski, Jeanette
Place: Detroit MI
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: 488 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; FLAHERTY, ROBERT; VERTOV, DZIGA; EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M.; BUNUEL, LUIS; WRIGHT, BASIL; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI; NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); QUE VIVA MEXICO! (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, [prod. 1932]); HURDES, LAS (SP, Luis Bunuel, 1933); SONG OF CEYLON, THE (UK, Basil Wright, 1934); TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (G, Leni Riefenstahl, 1935); PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1936); CITY, THE (US, Ralph Steiner, 1939); SPANISH EARTH, THE (US, Joris Ivens, 1937); LISTEN TO BRITAIN (UK, Humphrey Jennings/Stewart McAllister, 1942); BLOOD OF THE BEASTS (FR, Georges Franju,1949); SANG DES BETES, LE (FR, Georges Franju,1949); MAITRES FOUS, LES (FR, Jean Rouch, 1955); NUIT ET BROUILLARD (FR, Alain Resnais, 1955); DONT LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967); TITICUT FOLLIES (US, Frederick Wiseman, 1967); HORA DE LOS HORNOS, LA (AG, Fernado E. Solanos, 1968); ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES, THE (US, Stan Brakhage, 1971); AMERICAN FAMILY, AN [TV](US, 1973); DAISY, THE STORY OF A FACELIFT (CN, Michael Rubbo, 1982); THIS IS SPINAL TAP (US, Rob Reiner, 1984); SHERMAN'S MARCH (US, Ross McElwee, 1986 [prod. 1981]); I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS I AM LIKE (US, Bill Viola, 1986); JOURNEY, THE (CN, Peter Watkins, 1987); THIN BLUE LINE, THE (US, Errol Morris, 1988); ROGER AND ME (US, Michael Moore, 1989); TONGUES UNTIED (US, Marlon Riggs, 1989); PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990); FINDING CHRISTA (US, Camille Billops/James Hatch, 1991)
Summary: Documenting the Documentary features essays by twenty-seven film scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender, and representation -- but always in terms of how they arise out of or are involved in the reading of specific documentaries as particular textual constructions. By closely reading documentaries as rich visual works, this anthology fills a void in the critical writing on documentaries, which tends to privilege production over aesthetic pleasure. As we perceive and comprehend the world through visual media increasingly, understanding the textual strategies by which individual documentaries are organized has become critically important. Together, the essays cover the significant developments in the history of the documentary, from the first commercially released feature, Nanook of the North (1922), to modern independent productions, such as An American Family (1973), Tongues Untied (1989), and Finding Christa (1991), and including important national and stylistic movements and various production contexts from the mainstream to the avant-garde. Seth Feldman places Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) within the context of constructivism and futurism; Vivian Sobchack discusses the strategies of Bunuel's Las Hurdas (Land without Bread, 1931) in relation to surrealism; and Joanne Hershfield explores Que viva Mexico! (1932) as the presentation of an exotic culture by a European director. Documenting the Documentary offers clear, serious, and insightful analyses of documentary films, and is a welcome balancebetween theory and criticism, abstract conceptualization and concrete analysis. --FROM PUBLISHER'S SITE
Notes: includes bibliiographic references and index
ISBN: 0814326390
Contents: Filmmaker as hunter / William Rothman -- Peace between man and machine / Seth Feldman -- Paradise regained / Joanne Hershfield -- Synthetic vision / Vivian Sobchack -- Art of national projection / William Guynn -- Mass psychology of fascist cinema / Frank P. Tomasulo -- American documentary finds its voice / Charlie Keil -- Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death / 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

Call No: 761 HIC
Author: Hicks, Jeremy
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: xi, 194 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Series: KINO: the Russian cinema series
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; VERTOV, DZIGA; MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); THREE SONGS ABOUT LENIN (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1934) SEE TRI PESNI OF LENINE; TRI PESNI O LENINE (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1934)
Summary: "Pioneer of political documentary and inventor of cinema verite, Dziga Vertov has exerted a decisive influence on directors from Eisenstein to Goddard. Yet his reputation long rested upon a lone masterpiece, Man with a Movie Camera. Recently, however, Vertov has begun to be recognised as the creator of a body of innovative and distinct films. This, the first book in English to cover the whole of Vertov's career, reveals him to be an auteur, allowing readers to combine the familiar and less familiar aspects of his filmmaking and thinking in a cohesive narrative. Jeremy Hicks demonstrates how Vertov draws on Soviet journalistic models for his transformation of newsreel into the new form of documentary film. Through analyses of Cine-Pravda No 21 (Leninst Cine-Pravda), Cine-Eye, Forward Soviet!, A Sixth Part of the World, The Eleventh Year, Man with a Movie Camera, Enthusiasm, Three Songs of Lenin and Lullaby, he shows how Vertov's greatest works combine authentic documentary footage ingeniously for tremendous rhetorical effect. The director's current reputation is in sharp counterpoint to the way his films were received in Russia: in the 1920s the sheer novelty of the documentary genre meant his work was little understood and much criticised, and in the 1930s Vertov was marginalised. Documentary as we know it today is unthinkable without the rediscovery of Vertov in the 1960s. In an age more suspicious of documentary's implicit claims to objectivity, Vertov's reflexive and overtly partisan films are of even greater relevance, but need to be better known and understood. This is the purpose of Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film." -- BOOK BLURB
Contents: -- Acknowledments -- list of illustrations -- preface -- Introduction : Dziga Vertov--defining documentary film -- The birth of documentary from the spirit of journalism : Cine-Pravda, Cine-Eye -- Vertov and documentary theory : 'the goal was truth, the means Cine-Eye' -- 'A card catalogue in the gutter' : Forward, Soviet!, A sixth part of the world -- New paths : The eleventh year, Man with a movie camera -- Sound and the defence of documentary : Enthusiasm -- Documentary or hagiography? : Three songs of Lenin -- Years of sound and silence : Lullaby -- Forward Dziga! Foreign and posthumous reception -- notes -- select bibliography -- filmography -- index --

Call No: 632.22 ESS
Author: Papazian, Elizabeth A; Eades, Caroline
Edition: 2016
Place: New York; Chichester, UK
Publisher: Wallflower Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: xi,315 p. : illustrated ; 23 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); TREE OF LIFE, THE (US, Terrence Malick, 2011); VERTOV, DZIGA; MARKER, CHRIS; Pasolini, Pier Paolo; AKERMAN, CHANTAL; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; MORETTI, NANNI; DENIS, CLAIRE; MALICK, TERRENCE
Summary: With its increasing presence in a continuously evolving media environment, the essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to the world, and the aesthetic possibilities of cinema. In this volume, authors specializing in various national cinemas (Cuban, French, German, Israeli, Italian, Lebanese, Polish, Russian, American) and critical approaches (historical, aesthetic, postcolonial, feminist, philosophical) explore the essay film and its consequences for the theory of cinema while building on and challenging existing theories. Taking as a guiding principle the essay form's dialogic, fluid nature, the volume examines the potential of the essayistic to question, investigate, and reflect on all forms of cinema—fiction film, popular cinema, and documentary, video installation, and digital essay. A wide range of filmmakers are covered, from Dziga Vertov (Man with a Movie Camera, 1928), Chris Marker (Description of a Struggle, 1960), Nicolás Guillén Landrián (Coffea Arábiga, 1968), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Notes for an African Oresteia, 1969), Chantal Akerman (News from Home, 1976) and Jean-Luc Godard (Notre musique, 2004) to Nanni Moretti (Palombella Rossa, 1989), Mohammed Soueid (Civil War, 2002), Claire Denis (L'Intrus, 2004) and Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life, 2011), among others. The volume argues that the essayistic in film—as process, as experience, as experiment—opens the road to key issues faced by the individual in relation to the collective, but can also lead to its own subversion, as a form of dialectical thought that gravitates towards crisis. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780231176958
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia, by Elizabeth A. Papazian and Caroline Eades -- Part I: The Essay Film as Dialogue -- 1. Essayism and Contemporary Film Narrative, by Timothy Corrigan -- 2. Essaying the Forms of Popular Cinema: Godard, Farocki and the Principle of Shot/Countershot, by Rick Warner -- 3. The Practice of Strangeness: L'Intrus, from Jean-Luc Nancy (2000) to Claire Denis (2004), by Martine Beugnet -- 4. Cinéma-vérité and Kino-pravda: Rouch, Vertov, and the Essay Form, by Caroline Eades and Elizabeth A. Papazian -- Part II: The Essay Film as Politics -- 5. Notes for a Revolution: Pasolini's Postcolonial Essay Films, by Luca Caminati -- 6. Chris Marker's Description of a Struggle and the Limits of the Essay Film, by Eric Zakim -- 7. A Woman with a Movie Camera: Chantal Akerman's Essay Films, by Anne Eakin Moss -- 8. 'What Does It Mean Today to Be a Communist?': Nanni Moretti's Palombella rossa and La cosa as Essay Films, by Mauro Resmini -- Part III: The Essay Film as Utopia -- 9. Mohamed Soueid's Cinema of Immanence, by Laura U. Marks -- 10. Inside/Outside: Nicolasito Guillén Landrián's Subversive Strategy in Coffea Arábiga, by Ernesto Livon-Grosman -- 11. American Essays in How to Build a Home: Thoreau, Mekas, Proenneke, by Oliver Gaycken -- 12. 'to speak, to hold, to live by the image': Notes in the Margins of the New Videographic Tendency, by Luka Arsenjuk -- Afterword: The Idea of Essay Film, by Laura Rascaroli -- Index

PhysDes: Article
Subject: CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Summary: ill; ports

Call No: 81VER KIN
Author: Vertov, Dziga, 1896-1954; Michelson, Annette
Source: US
Place: Berkeley, Ca.
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 1984
PhysDes: lxi, 344 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Subject: ART CINEMA; CINEMATOGRAPHY; DOCUMENTARIES; DOCUMENTARY FILMS. USSR; EDITING; INDUSTRY, FILM. USSR; NEWSREELS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA; REVOLUTION AND THE CINEMA; SOCIALISM AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; VERTOV, DZIGA; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); KINOGLAZ (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1924); KOLYBELNAYA (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1937); LULLABY (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1937); THREE SONGS ABOUT LENIN (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1934); TRI PESNI O LENINE (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1934)
Summary: "Vertov's writings, collected here, range from calculated manifestoes setting forth a new, heroic version of film's potentiual to dark rumination on the inactivity forced upon him by the growing bureaucratization of the of the Soviet state and its film industry. His theory was at every point elaborated in direct, vigorous relation with practice; his doctrine of kino-eye, breaking with film's subjection to traditional narrative purposes, was a passionate call to action. Vertov's spirit of revolutionary optimism leaps from his pages. Articles, memoranda, speeches, letters, proposals for films, poured from his pen - explaining, defining, persuading. In voluminous notebooks and diaries he proposed a cinema implicated in the process of revolutionary transformation, one that would play a leading role in the construction of socialism." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes index; Filmography: p. [330]-334
ISBN: 0520046242 (cloth); 0520047605 (pbk.); 0520056302 (alk. paper)
LON: 82011189; 2248486

Call No: 775 MAN
Author: Manovich, Lev
Source: US
Place: Cambridge, Mass. London
Publisher: MIT Press
PubDate: c2001
PhysDes: xxxix, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Leonardo
Subject: DIGITAL BROADCASTING; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY; MEDIA; INTERACTIVE CINEMA; INTERNET AND THE CINEMA; INTERNET AND TV; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GAMES; COMPUTERIZED ANIMATION AND SPECIAL EFFECTS; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA; ANIMATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; LOOP FILMS; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; BARTHES, ROLAND; BENJAMIN, WALTER; COMOLLI, JEAN-LOUIS; MELIES, GEORGES; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0262133741 : No price
LON: 21628309

Author: Petley, Julian
PhysDes: Article
Subject: CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Summary: Review;ill;credits;synopsis

Call No: 79MAN ROB
Author: Roberts, Graham
Source: UK/US
Place: London ; New York
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
PubDate: c2000
PhysDes: xv, 108 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Series: KINOfiles film companions ; 2
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; RUSSIANS IN FILMS; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USSR; USSR; CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Summary: "This volume investigates the production, context and reception of the film "The Man with the Movie Camera" directed by Dziya Ventov, the people who made it, and the film itself, including its place in Russian and World cinema."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [107]-108)
ISBN: 9781860643941
Contents: -- Introduction -- acknowledgments -- note on transliteration -- production details and credits -- preface -- 1: plot and synopsis -- 2: the historical context -- 3: a textual analysis -- 4: significance and significance -- further reading --

Call No: 70"192" MUL
Author: Muller, Jurgen
Edition: 2007
Place: Koln
Publisher: Taschen GMBH
PubDate: 2007
PhysDes: 482 pgaes : illustrated ; 26 cm
Subject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; TRIP TO THE MOON [VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE] (FR, George Melies, 1902); GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); STUDENT VON PRAG, DER (G, Stellan Rye, 1913); CABIRIA (IT, Giovanni Pastrone, 1914); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); INTOLERANCE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1916); MADAME DUBARRY (G, Ernst Lubitsch, 1919); CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI, DAS (G, Robert Wiene, 1920); EROTIKON (SW, Mauritz Stiller, 1920); GOLEM, WIE ER IN DIE WILT KAM, DER (G, Paul Wegener & Carl Bose, 1920); KID, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1921); FOOLISH WIVES (US, Erich Von Stroheim, 1922); FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE (US, Rex Ingram, 1921); THREE MUSKETEERS, THE (US, Fred Niblo, 1921); ABENTEUER DES PRINZEN ACHMED, DIE (GE/GG, Carl Koch & Lotte Reiniger, 1925); TOL'ABLE DAVID (US, Henry King, 1921); NOSFERATU - EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922); NANOOK OF THE NORTH (US, Robert Flaherty, 1922); HAXAN [WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES] (SW/DK, Benjamin Christensen, 1922); [DOKTOR] DR. MABUSE DER SPIELER (G, Fritz Lang, 1922); SAFETY LAST (US, Fred Newmayer/Sam Taylor, 1923); HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (US, Wallace Worsley, 1923); TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1923); WACHSFIGURENKABINETT, DAS (G, Paul Leni, 1924); THIEF OF BAGDAD (US, Raoul Walsh, 1924); SHERLOCK, JR. (US, Buster Keaton, 1924); NIBELUNGEN, DIE (G, Fritz Lang, 1922-24); LETZIE MANN, DER (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1924); NAVIGATOR, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp, 1924); GREED (US, Erich von Stroheim, 1925); IRON HORSE, THE (UK, John Ford, 1924); GOLD RUSH, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1925); BEN HUR (US, Fred Niblo, 1925); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); VARIETE (G, E.A. Dupont, 1925); BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925); FREUDLOSE GASSE, DIE (G, Wilhelm Pabst, 1925); PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, THE (US, Rupert Julian, 1925); SON OF THE SHEIK, THE (US, George Fitzmaurice, 1926); LODGER, THE (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1926); GENERAL, THE (US, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1927); BLACK PIRATE, THE (US, Albert Parker, 1926); FAUST (G, Friedrich Wilhelm Marnau, 1926); ABENTEUER DES PRINZEN ACHMED, DIE (GE/GG, Carl Koch & Lotte Reiniger, 1925); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); KONETS SANKT-PETERSBURGA (UR, Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1927); BERLIN DIE SINFONIE DER GROSSTADT (G, Walter Ruttman, 1927); NAPOLEON (FR, Abel Gance, 1927); CHAPEAU DE PAILLE D'ITALIE, UN (FR, Rene Clair, 1927); SUNRISE (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1927); JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927); PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC, LA (FR, Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928); CROWD, THE (US, King Vidor, 1928); WIND, THE (US, Victor Sjostrom, 1928); CIRCUS, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1928); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BLACKMAIL (UK, Alfred Hitchcock, 1929); BUCHSE DER PANDORA, DIE (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929); CHIEN ANDALOU, UN (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1928); LITTLE CAESAR (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1931); BLAUE ENGEL, DER (G, Josef von Sternberg, 1930); ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (US, Lewis Milestone, 1930); SOUS LES TOITS DE PARIS (FR, Rene Clair, 1929); MOROCCO (US, Josef von Sternberg, 1930); WESTFRONT 1918 (G, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1930); AGE D'OR, L' (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1930)
Notes: From the invention of the moving picture to the first sound movies From the first moving pictures (the Lumiere brothers' 1895 L'arrive d'un train), early westerns, fantastic pictures, and nickelodeons all the way through the golden age of silent film in the 1920s, this book covers the first three decades of the moving picture around the world. In America, we witness the birth of Hollywood, circa 1910, where film quickly became a powerful industry and D. W. Griffith put American cinema on the map; later, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton developed a new language of visual comedy while eccentrics like Erich von Stroheim and Cecil B. DeMille turned cinema into a high art form and show biz respectively, and sex symbols like Rudolph Valentino and Greta Garbo heated up the screens. Meanwhile, in Europe, German directors such as Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang were establishing their careers and Russian greats Eisenstein and Pudovkin were already revolutionizing a nascent art form. At the end of the 1920s the very first "talkies", albeit rudimentary ones, brutally crushed the silent art, but by 1930 sound masterpieces such as Sternberg's The Blue Angel and Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front were produced. This exploration of the founding years of cinema offers a fascinating perspective on a period in movie history that is far too often overlooked in our times. -- jacket blurb
ISBN: 9783822846131
Donation: Megan McMurchy

Call No: 45:2 PLA
Author: Plate, S. Brent
Edition: second
Place: New York; Chichester, U.K.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
PubDate: 2017
PhysDes: xviii,207 p. : illus. ; 23cm
Subject: RELIGION AND THE CINEMA; PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, THE (US, Woody Allen, 1985); TIDELAND (CN/UK, Terry Gilliam, 2005); BIG FISH (US, Tim Burton, 2003); MATRIX, THE (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1999); PASSION OF THE CHRIST, THE (US, Mel Gibson, 2004); BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986); CHOCOLAT (US, Lasse Hallstrom, 2000); ANTONIA'S LINE (NE/BE/UK, Marleen Gorris, 1995) SEE ANTONIA; ANTONIA (NE/BE/UK, Marleen Gorris, 1995); CINEMA PARADISO (IT/FR, Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929); BARAKA (US, Ron Fricke, 1992); MONSTERS, INC. (U S, Peter Docter & David Silverman, 2001); KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (JA, Hayao Miyazaki, 1989); METROPOLIS (G, Fritz Lang, 1926); ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE'S OWN EYES, THE (US, Stan Brakhage, 1971); BEN HUR (US, William Wyler, 1959); KING OF KINGS (US, Nicholas Ray, 1961); BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); STRAIGHT STORY, THE (US/FR/UK, David Lynch, 1999)
Summary: Religion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing, and other production activities, film takes the world “out there” and refashions it. Religion achieves similar ends by setting apart particular objects and periods of time, telling stories, and gathering people together for communal actions and concentrated focus. The result of both cinema and religious practice is a re-created world: a world of fantasy, a world of ideology, a world we long to live in, or a world we wish to avoid at all costs. Religion and Film introduces readers to both religious studies and film studies by focusing on the formal similarities between cinema and religious practices and on the ways they each re-create the world. Explorations of film show how the cinematic experience relies on similar aesthetic devices on which religious rituals have long relied: sight, sound, the taste of food, the body, and communal experience. Meanwhile, a deeper understanding of the aesthetic nature of religious rituals can alter our understanding of film production. Utilizing terminology and theoretical insights from the study of religion as well as the study of film, Religion and Film shows that by paying attention to the ways films are constructed, we can shed new light on the ways religious myths and rituals are constructed and vice versa. This thoroughly revised and expanded new edition is designed to appeal to the needs of courses in religion as well as film departments. In addition to two new chapters, this edition has been restructured into three distinct sections that offer students and instructors theories and methods for thinking about cinema in ways that more fully connect film studies with religious studies. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 978023117650
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: List of Illustrations Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments Introduction: Worldmaking On-Screen and at the Altar Part I. Before the Show: Pulling the Curtain on the Wizard 1. Audio-Visual Mythologizing 2. Ritualizing Film in Space and Time 3. Sacred and Cinematic Spaces: Cities and Pilgrimages Part II. During the Show: Attractions and Distractions 4. Religious Cinematics: Body, Screen, and Death 5. The Face, the Close-Up, and Ethics Part III. After the Show: Re-Created Realities 6. The Footprints of Film: Cinematic After-Images in Sacred Time and Space Notes References Filmography Index
ID2: 283

Call No: 761 REN
Author: Renov, Michael
Place: Minneapolis, MN
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: xxiv, 286 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Series: Visible evididence: volume 16
Subject: DOCUMENTARIES; CINEMA VERITE; BARTHES, ROLAND; BRECHT, BERTHOLD; DERRIDA, JACQUES; FOUCAULT, MICHEL; FREUD, SIGMUND; GODARD, JEAN-LUC; IVENS, JORIS; LACAN, JACQUES; MCLUHAN, MARSHALL; MEKAS, JONAS; VERTOV, DZIGA; WEXLER, HASKELL; MEDIUM COOL (US, Haskell Wexler, 1969); CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM (UR, Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Summary: "Michael Renov focuses on how documentary filmmaking has become an important means for both examining and constructing selfhood. Renov analyzes films in which the subjectivity of the filmmaker is expressly defined, from Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool to Jonas Mekas's Lost, Lost, Lost, and contemplates such nontraditional modes of autobiographical practice as the essay film, the video confession, and the personal Web page." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: Essays either previously published or previously presented at various conferences. Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780816634415
Donation: Adrian Miles
Contents: Part 1: Social subjectivity -- 1: Early newsreel : the construction of a political imaginary for the new left -- 2. The "real" in fiction : Brecht, Medium cool, and the refusal of incorporation -- 3. Warring images : stereotype and American representations of the Japanese, 1941-1991 -- 4. Lost, lost, lost : Mekas as essayist -- Part 2: The subject in theory -- 5. Charged vision : the place of desire in documentary film theory -- 6. The subject in history : the new autobiography in film and video -- 7. Filling up the hole in the real : death and mourning in contemporary documentary film and video -- 8. Documentary disavowals and the digital -- 9. Technology and ethnographic dialogue -- 10. The address to the other : ethical discourse in Everything's for you -- Part three: modes of subjectivity -- 11. New subjectivities : documentary and self-representation in the post-verite age -- 12. The electronic essay -- 13. Video confessions -- 14. Domestic ethnography and the construction of the "other" self. -- 15. The end of autobiography or new beginnings? (or, everything, you never knew you would know about someone you will probably never meet).