In essays by eleven of America's foremost writers, critics, and
filmmakers, Beyond Document explores the full spectrum of
nonfiction film and its creative possibilities. In addition to
Charles Warren's broad introductory history of the genre, the book
takes a close look at ethnographic films, cinema-verite, memoir and
autobiography, docudramas, essay films, and newsreels, from
classics like Night and Fog and Nanook of the North to more recent
important work like Film about a Woman Who. . ., Harlan County,
U.S.A., Sans Soleil, and Forest of Bliss.
Representations of reality are increasingly contested, in
courtrooms and in Congress, as well as in art. Asking what the art
of film can achieve, Helene Keyssar considers the history of
nonfiction films by women; Jay Cantor discusses film investigations
of the Holocaust; Patricia Hampl looks at how autobiographical
films render experience into narrative; Robert Gardner questions
the filmmaker's "impulse to preserve"; and poet Susan Howe explores
structures of mourning in several filmmakers. All the book's essays
provide deeply felt understanding of documentary film, and of how
we live with, an d within, images.
CONTRIBUTORS: Jay Cantor, Robert Gardener, Patricia Hampl, Maureen
Howard, Susan Howe, Helene Keyssar, Phillip Lopatte, Vlada Petric,
William Rothman, Charles Warren, Eliot Weinberger.
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