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Three Documentary Filmmakers

By William Rothman

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Three Documentary Filmmakers

By William Rothman

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
254
Release Date:
2009-03-05
Publication Date:
2009-03-10
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1438425023
ISBN13:
9781438425023
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[email protected]
Weight:
418 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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