Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documentary responded
to a scholarly landscape in which documentary film was largely
understudied and undervalued aesthetically, and analysed instead
through issues of ethics, politics, and film technology. Editors
Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski addressed this gap by
presenting a useful survey of the artistic and persuasive aspects
of documentary film from a range of critical viewpoints. This new
edition of Documenting the Documentary adds five new essays on more
recent films in addition to the text of the first edition.
Thirty-one film and media scholars, many of them among the most
important voices in the area of documentary film, cover the
significant developments in the history of documentary filmmaking
fromNanook of the North (1922), the first commercially released
documentary feature, to contemporary independent film and video
productions like Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (2005) and the
controversial Borat (2006). The works discussed also include
representative examples of many important national and stylistic
movements and various production contexts, from mainstream to
avant-garde. In all, this volume offers a series of rich and
revealing analyses of those ""regimes of truth"" that still
fascinate filmgoers as much today as they did at the very
beginnings of film history. As documentary film and visual media
become increasingly important ways for audiences to process news
and information, Documenting the Documentary continues to be a
vital resource to understanding the genre. Students and teachers of
film studies and fans of documentary film will appreciate this
expanded classic volume. Contributors Include: Bart Testa, Carl
Plantinga, Caryl Flinn, Catherine Russell, Charlie Keil, David T.
Johnson, Diane Scheinman, Frank P. Tomasulo, Jeanne Hall, Jeffrey
K. Ruoff, Jim Leach, Joan Nicks, Joanne Hershfield, John R. Cook,
Julia Lesage, Leshu Torchin, Linda Williams, Lucy Fischer, Matthew
Bernstein, Paula J. Massood, Robert Stam, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis,
Seth Feldman, Sheila Petty, Thomas Waugh, Virginia Bonner, Vivian
Sobchack, William Guynn, William Rothman.
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