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Speaking truths with film : evidence, ethics, politics in documentary /

"What issues, of both form and content, shape the documentary film? What role does visual evidence play in relation to a documentary's arguments about the world in which we live? Can a documentary be believed, and why or why not? How do documentaries abide by or subvert ethical expectation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nichols, Bill, 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Documentary film and the modernist avant-garde
  • Documentary reenactment and the fantasmatic subject
  • Letter to Lynn Sachs about her film Investigation of a flame
  • Breaking the frame, gender, violation and the avant-garde
  • The coming of sound
  • To see the world anew : revisiting the voice of documentary
  • The sound of music
  • The question of evidence : the power of rhetoric and the documentary film
  • The terrorist event
  • Remaking history : Jay Leyda, and the compilation film
  • Restrepo : a case of inadvertent evidence
  • The symptomatic biopic : Steve Jobs : the man in the machine
  • Documentary ethics : doing the right thing
  • Irony, paradox and the documentary : double meanings and double binds
  • Letter to Errol Morris : feelings of revulsion and the limits of academic discourse
  • Perpetrators, trauma and film
  • San Francisco newsreel : collectives, politics, films
  • The political documentary and the problem of impact.