Cook - 'Don't you ever just watch?' : American cinema verite and Dont look back / Jeanne Hall - 'Ethnography in the first person' : Frederick Wiseman's Titicut follies / Barry Keith Grant - The two avant-gardes : Solanas and Getino's The hour of the furnaces / Robert Stam - Seeing with experimental eyes : Stan Brakhage's The act of seeing with one's own eyes / Bart Testa - 'A bastard union of several forms' : style and narrative in An American family / Jeffrey K. Tomasulo - American documentary finds its voice : persuasion and expression in The plow that broke the plains and the city / Charlie Keil - 'Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death' : Joris Ivens's The Spanish earth / Thomas Waugh - The poetics of propaganda : Humphrey Jennings and Listen to Britain / Jim Leach - 'It was an atrocious film' : Georges Franju's Blood of the beasts / Jeannette Sloniowski - The 'dialogic imagination' of Jean Rouch : covert conversations in Les maitres fous / Diane Scheinman - Documenting the ineffable : terror and memory in Alain Resnais's Night and fog / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis - Making the past present : Peter Watkins's Culloden / John R.

The filmmaker as hunter : Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the north / William Rothman - 'Peace between man and machine' : Dziga Vertov's Man with a movie camera / Seth Feldman - Paradise regained : Sergei Eisenstein's Que viva Mexico! as ethnography / Joanne Hershfield - Synthetic vision : the dialectical imperative of Luis Bunuel's Las hurdes / Vivian Sobchack - The art of national projection : Basil Wright's Song of Ceylon / William Guynn - The mass psychology of fascist cinema : Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the will / Frank P.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-548) and index adds five essays on more recent films'-Back cover Anthology of essays on the artistic and persuasive aspects of documentary film from a range of critical viewpoints

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