Three Documentary Filmmakers

Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch

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Type

Studies

Sujet

Genre > Documentary

Mots Clés

Errol Morris, documentary, Jean Rouch, reality, Ross McElwee

Année d'édition

2009

Editeur

State University of New York Press

Collection

SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 252 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4384-2502-3

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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.

À propos de l'auteur :
William Rothman is Professor of Motion Pictures and Director of the Graduate Program in Film Studies at the University of Miami. He is the author of several books, including Documentary Film Classics and Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze, and also the editor of several volumes, including Cavell on Film, also published by SUNY Press, and Jean Rouch: A Celebration of Life and Film.

Revue de Presse:
"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

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