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Call No: 769(73) MAC
Author: MacDonald, Scott
Source: US
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 2013
PhysDes: viii, 415 pages : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS; DOCUMENTARIES. USA; MARSHALL, JOHN; GARDNER, ROBERT; ASCH, TIMOTHY; PINCUS, ED; WEINSTEIN, MIRIAM; GUZZETTI, ALFRED; MCELWEE, ROSS; MOSS, ROBB; DAVENPORT, NINA; ASCHER, STEVEN; JORDAN, JEANNE; NEGROPONTE, MICHEL; GIANVITO, JOHN; OLCH, ALEXANDER; SIEGEL, AMIE; BARBASH, ILISA; CASTAING-TAYLOR, LUCIEN
Summary: "American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary is a critical history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of ethnographic film and personal documentary. The Boston and Cambridge area is notable for nurturing these approaches to documentary film via institutions such as the MIT Film Section and the Film Study Center, the Carpenter Center and the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard. Scott MacDonald uses pragmatism's focus on empirical experience as a basis for measuring the groundbreaking achievements of such influential filmmakers as John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch, Ed Pincus, Miriam Weinstein, Alfred Guzzetti, Ross McElwee, Robb Moss, Nina Davenport, Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan, Michel Negroponte, John Gianvito, Alexander Olch, Amie Siegel, Ilisa Barbash, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor. By exploring the cinematic, personal, and professional relationships between these accomplished filmmakers, MacDonald shows how a pioneering, engaged, and uniquely cosmopolitan approach to documentary developed over the past half century. "--
ISBN: 9780520275621
Contents: Machine generated contents note: A Tentative Overview of Boston-Area Documentary Filmmaking -- Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary -- Pragmatism: Learning from Experience -- The Mission of American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn -- Subjects for Further Research -- Acknowledgments -- 1.Lorna and John Marshall -- Beginnings: Lorna Marshall and First Film -- John Marshall: The Hunters -- Idylls of the !Kung -- Pedagogy -- Expulsion from Eden: Bitter Melons and Nlai, the Story of a !Kung Woman -- The Pittsburgh Police Films and Brakhage's Eyes -- Putting Down the Camera and Picking Up the Shovel -- The Road Taken: A Kalahari Family -- A Process in Time -- 2.Robert Gardner -- East Coast/West Coast: Early Experiments -- Gardner and the Marshalls -- Dead Birds -- The Experience of Filmmaking as Thought Process -- Robert Fulton: Reality's Invisible---"Serious Playing Around" -- Screening Room: Midnight Movies -- City Symphony: Forest of Bliss -- Contents note continued: The Return of the Repressed: Ika Hands -- Still Journeying On: Unfinished Examinations of a Life -- Studio7Arts: Sharon Lockhart's Double Tide and Robert Fenz's Correspondence -- 3.Timothy Asch -- Dodoth Morning and the Ethnographic Deadpan -- Asch and the Yanomamo -- The Ax Fight -- 4.Ed Pincus and the Emergence of Personal Documentary -- The Miriam Weinstein Quartet and Richard P. Rogers's Elephants: Fragments of an Argument -- Ed Pincus's Diaries (1971--1976) -- Alfred Guzzetti: Family Portrait Sittings -- Guzzetti: It's a Small World -- Guzzetti: Time Exposure -- 5.Alfred Guzzetti and Personal Cinema -- Air -- Experimental Video: "Language Lessons" -- Scylla and Charybdis -- Still Point -- 6.Ross McElwee -- Finding a Muse: Charleen -- Finding a Voice: Ann Schaetzel's Breaking and Entering and McElwee's Backyard -- Doppleganger: Sherman's March -- Nesting Dolls: Time Indefinite -- On the Road Again: Six O'Clock News -- Contents note continued: Occupational Hazards: Bright Leaves -- Orpheus: In Paraguay and Photographic Memory -- 7.Robb Moss -- Riverdogs: A Possible Eden -- The Tourist: "Freelance Editing" -- Voyage of Life: The Same River Twice -- 8.Panorama: Other Approaches to Personal Documentary -- Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan: Families in Transition -- Michel Negroponte: Getting Involved -- Leacock and Lalonde -- The Subject Rebels: Nina Davenport's Films and Ed Pincus and Lucia Small's The Axe in the Attic -- The Political Is the Personal: John Gianvito's Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind and Jeff Daniel Silva's Balkan Rhapsodies -- Alexander Olch's The Windmill Movie: "This Little Seance of Flickering Light" -- Amie Siegel's DDR/DDR -- 9.Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Sensory Ethnography -- Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, and Sweetgrass -- "Sheeple": Castaing-Taylor's Audio-Video Installations -- Contents note continued: The Sensory Ethnography Lab: J. P. Sniadecki, Stephanie Spray, Verena Paravel, and Leviathan

Call No: 761(04) BEY
Author: Warren, Charles, 1948
Place: Hanover, NH
Publisher: University Press of New England
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: xxviii, 366 p. : ports. ; 24 cm
Subject: 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 BLURB
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-350) and index
ISBN: 0819552879 (cl : alk. paper); 0819562904 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 11642141
Contents: 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

Call No: 802.25 MAC
Author: MacDonald, Scott, 1942
Place: Berkeley London
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: x, 462 p. : ill., ports ; 24cm
Subject: BREER, ROBERT; SNOW, MICHAEL; MEKAS, JONAS; BAILLIE, BRUCE; ONO, YOKO; BENNING, JAMES; BORDEN, LIZZIE; MCELWEE, ROSS; FRIEDRICH, SU; MULVEY, LAURA; RAINER, YVONNE; TRINH, T. MINH-HA; REGGIO, GODFREY; WATKINS, PETER; MCCALL, ANTHONY; NOREN, ANDREW; ROBERTSON, ANNE; SEVERSON, ANNE
Notes: Bibliography: p437-447. -List of films: p423-435. -Includes index
ISBN: 0520079175 (cased) : No price; 0520079183 (pbk) : No price; 0520058011 (pbk); 0520058003 (cased)
LON: 9965582

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; 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] 4 CORNERS [TV] (AT, 1961-); BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN [BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN] (UR, Sergei Eisenstein, 1925); 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); 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: 632.22 COR
Author: Corrigan, Timothy
Edition: 2011
Place: Oxford ; New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 2011
PhysDes: 238 pages : illustrated ; 24 cm
Subject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS; MCELWEE, ROSS; VARDA, AGNES; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS; FOLMAN, ARI; MARKER, CHRIS
Summary: Even though essay films have been a key practice since the 1950s, there is scant analysis about this form in English. Part of this is likely due to the inherent difficulty of definition. The films, which foreground subjectivity and adopt an explicit, personal approach to their subject matter, can look and feel very different from one another. Their coherence as a group, however, comes into focus when contextualized as part of the larger tradition from which they draw. By looking to the literary and philosophical lineage of the essay form, Corrigan brings new clarity to a practice that, arguably, is one of the most common and successful in contemporary film culture. The Essay Film situates its investigation in the literary tradition of essayists such as Montaigne, Barthes, and Huxley before moving to an expansive discussion of filmmakers such as Derek Jarman, Allan Clark, Werner Herzog, Harun Farocki, Chantal Akerman, Chris Marker, Errol Morris, Nanni Moretti, Agnès Varda, Ross McElwee, Abbas Kiarostami, Raoul Ruiz, Lynne Sachs, and Trinh T. Minh-ha. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780199781706
Contents: Introduction: Of Film and the Essayistic -- Part I: Toward the Essay Film -- Chapter One:One Thoughts Occasioned by . . .Montaigne to Marker -- Chapter Two:Of the History of the Essay Film: from Vertov, to Varda -- Part II: Essayistic Thinking -- Chapter Three:About Portraying Expression: The Essay Film as Inter-view -- Chapter Four:To Be Elsewhere: Cinematic Excursions on Essayistic Travel -- Chapter Five:On Essayistic Diaries: Or, the Velocities of Non-Peace -- Chapter Six:Of the Currency of Events: The Essay Film as Editorial -- Chapter Seven:About Refractive Cinema: When Films Interrogate Films -- Works Cited -- Index

Call No: PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: MCELWEE, ROSS