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In
Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. In place of the conventional documentary, she advocates for a "postrealist" cinema.
List of contents
Manifestly Radical: A Foreword, by Bill Nichols
Acknowledgments
I Call This Book a Letter
Introduction-a Letter to Filmmakers
1. Abandon the Conventional Documentary-Reject Realism as the Only Authentic Nonfiction Form
2. Take Action-Make Useful Postrealist Films
3. Forty Postrealist Strategies to Learn from and Borrow
4. The Toolkit
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Jill Godmilow; Foreword by Bill Nichols
Summary
In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. In place of the conventional documentary, she advocates for a “postrealist” cinema.
Additional text
Jill Godmilow marshals a pantheon of hard-hitting, tough-minded films that refuse to be herded into the realist corral. Godmilow’s letter, or manifesto, like most manifestos, draws a line in the sand. Which side are you on becomes the question. Stay put and miss the point, or step on through to the other side and restore for yourself some of the nuance and subtlety that is foreign to the spirit of a manifesto.
