Three Documentary Filmmakers

Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Uses new critical approaches to demonstrate deep affinities in these vastly different filmmakers' philosophies on film, fantasy, and reality.Film study has tended to treat documentary as a marginal form, but as the essays in Three Documentary Filmmakers demonstrate, the films of Jean Rouch, Ross McElwee, and Errol Morris call for, and reward, the sort of criticism expected of serious works in any medium. However, critical methods that illuminate what makes Citizen Kane a great film are not adequate for expressing what it is about Rouch's The Funeral at Bongo: The Old Annaï, McElwee's Time Indefinite, and Morris's The Fog of War that makes them-each in its own way-great films as well. Although these filmmakers differ strikingly from one another, their films are deeply philosophical and personal, and explore the paradoxical relationships between fantasy and reality, self and world, fiction and documentary, dreams and film, filming and living. It is a challenge to find terms of criticism capable of illuminating such works, and the essays in this book rise to that challenge.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2009-03-10
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Antal sidor252
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438425016

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IntroductionWilliam Rothman Part 1. Errol Morris: The Fog of Film 1. Errol Morris’s IronyGilberto Perez2. Errol Morris’s Forms of ControlIra Jaffe3. The Philosophy of Errol Morris: Ten LessonsCarl Plantinga Part 2. Ross McElwee: I Film Therefore I Am 4. Coincidence in Ross McElwee’s DocumentariesDiane Stevenson5. Reflections on Bright LeavesMarian Keane6. Drifting in Time: Ross McElwee’s Time IndefiniteJim Lane7. Surprise and Pain, Writing and FilmCharles Warren8. Sometimes Daddies Don’t Talk about Things like ThatWilliam Rothman Part 3. Jean Rouch: The Filmmaker as Provocateur 9. Jean Rouch and the Power of the BetweenPaul Stoller10. The Pause of the WorldDaniel Morgan11. Jean Rouch’s Les maîtres fous: Documentary of Seduction, Seduction of DocumentaryAlan Cholodenko12. Petit à Petit and The Lion HuntersMichael Laramee13. Jean Rouch as Film Artist: Tourou and Bitti,The Old Anaï, Ambara DamaWilliam RothmanWorks CitedList of ContributorsIndex

"Rothman's contributors … all bring fruitful perspectives to bear on their subjects. The pieces vary widely in focus and approach, but the collection is solid and provocative." — CHOICE"The force and virtue of this book can be found in the interstices between and among three vastly different auteurs, styles, subjects, and cinematic dispositions. It will cause readers to think of documentary along new and unforeseen paths of inquiry." — Tom Conley, author of Cartographic Cinema