Table of Contents
Foreword to New and Expanded Bill Nichols ix
Preface to First Edition xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction xxiii
1 The Filmmaker as Hunter: Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North William Rothman 1
2 "Peace between Man and Machine": Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera Seth Feldman 19
3 Paradise Regained: Sergei Eisenstein's Que viva México! as Ethnography Joanne Hershfield 35
4 Synthetic Vision: The Dialectical Imperative of Luis Buñuel's Las Hurdes Vivian Sobchack 51
5 The Art of National Projection: Basil Wright's Song of Ceylon William Guynn 64
6 The Mass Psychology of Fascist Cinema: Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will Frank P. Tomasulo 81
7 American Documentary Finds Its Voice: Persuasion and Expression in The Plow That Broke the Plains and The City Charlie Keil 103
8 "Men Cannot Act before the Camera in the Presence of Death": Joris Ivens's The Spanish Earth Thomas Waugh 122
9 The Poetics of Propaganda: Humphrey Jennings and Listen to Britain Jim Leach 141
10 "It Was an Atrocious Film": Georges Franju's Blood of the Beasts Jeannette Sloniowski 159
11 The "Dialogic Imagination" of Jean Rouch: Covert Conversations in Les maítres fous Diane Scheinman 178
12 Documenting the Ineffable: Terror and Memory in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog Sandy Flitterman-Lewis 196
13 Making the Past Present: Peter Watkins's Culloden John R. Cook 217
14 "Don't You Ever Just Watch?": American Cinema Verité and Dont Look Back Jeanne Hall 237
15 "Ethnography in the First Person": Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies Barry Keith Grant 253
16 The Two Avant-Gardes: Solanas and Getino's The Hour of the Furnaces Robert Stam 271
17 Seeing with Experimental Eyes: Stan Brakhage's The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes Bart Testa 287
18 "A Bastard Union of Several Forms": Style and Narrative in An American Family Jeffrey K. Ruoff 305
19 The Documentary of Displaced Persona: Michael Rubbo's Daisy: The Story of a Facelift Joan Nicks 322
20 Gender, Power, and a Cucumber: Satirizing Masculinity in This Is Spinal Tap Carl Plantinga 339
21 Documentary Film and the Discourse of Hysterical/Historical Narrative: Ross McElwee's Sherman's March Lucy Fischer 356
22 Subjectivity Lost and Found: Bill Viola's I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like Catherine Russell 368
23 Mirrors without Memories: Truth, History, and The Thin Blue Line Linda Williams 385
24 Documentaphobia and Mixed Modes: Michael Moore's Roger & Me Matthew Bernstein 404
25 Silence and Its Opposite: Expressions of Race in Tongues Untied Sheila Petty 424
26 Containing Fire: Performance in Paris Is Burning Caryl Flinn 438
27 Contested Territory: Camille Billops and James Hatch's Finding Christa Julia Lesage 456
28 Spike Lee's 4 Little Girls: The Politics of the Documentary Interview Paula J. Massood 475
29 The Gleaners and "Us": The Radical Modesty of Agnès Varda's Les glaneurs et la glaneuse Virginia Bonner 494
30 "You Must Never Listen to This": Lessons on Sound, Cinema, and Mortality from Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man David T. Johnson 507
31 Cultural Learnings of Borat for Make Benefit Glorious Study of Documentary Leshu Torchin 522
Bibliography 543
Contributors 549
Index 557
