The Cinema of Errol Morris

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by David Resha

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Errol Morris

Keywords

Errol Morris, director

Publishing date

2015

Publisher

Wesleyan University Press

Collection

Wesleyan Film

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 288 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-8195-7533-3

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Book Presentation:
First book on documentary cinema's most innovative and influential director

The Cinema of Errol Morris offers close analyses of the director's films--from box office successes like The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War to Morris's early works like Vernon, Florida and controversial films like Standard Operating Procedure. Film scholar David Resha's reappraisal of Morris's films allows us to rethink the traditional distinction between stylistically conservative documentaries, which are closely invested in evidence and reality, and stylistically adventurous films, which artfully call to question such claims of nonfiction and truth. According to Resha, Errol Morris does not fit neatly in this division of the documentary tradition. Rather, his experiments with documentary conventions constitute another way to investigate reality--in particular, to examine the ways in which his subjects understand, and misunderstand, themselves and the world around them. Seen within the nonfiction tradition, an Errol Morris documentary is a flexible form of lively, engaging storytelling and shrewd, cutting, in-depth reportage.

Hardcover is un-jacketed.

About the Author:
DAVID RESHA is an assistant professor of media and film studies at Birmingham-Southern College. He is on the board of directors for the Alabama Moving Image Association.

See the publisher website: Wesleyan University Press

See the complete filmography of Errol Morris on the website: IMDB ...