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A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1960 1990 is the second book in a three-volume set. It offers a systematic hermeneutical reading of thirty definitions of Documentary from 1960 to 1990 by then a familiar, already used, and abused dialectical object of thought and practice. The book progresses chronologically through three decades of ongoing efforts by documentarians, theorists, historians, and philosophers to define Documentary, examining the philosophical foundations, ethical implications, and evolving documentarological sensibilities of these definitions. It also reassesses the intense ontological debates about Documentary, highlighting the discourse's expanding definitional landscape. Building on the first volume, which examined thirty definitions from 1895 to 1959, this work weaves an intricate hermeneutical network of interconnections among all sixty definitions. It further anticipates the third volume, which will analyze forty additional definitions of Documentary from 1991 to the present, offering a comprehensive philosophical history of the evolution of Documentary as both concept and practice.
List of contents
1: Introduction.- 2: 1960; Edgar Morin.- 3: 1961; Richard Leacock.- 4: 1962; Robert Drew.- 5: 1962; Sergei Drobashenko.- 6: 1963; Joris Ivens.- 7: 1964; The Maysles Brothers.- 8: 1965; Richard Leacock.- 9: 1966; Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, aka Chris Marker.- 10: 1967; John Grierson.- 11: 1968; William Greaves.- 12: 1969; Jean Rouch.- 13: 1970; Sara (Sarita) Gómez.- 14: 1970; Shirley Clarke.- 15: 1971; Donn Alan (Penny) Pennebaker.- 16: 1971; Lewis Jacobs.- 17: 1972; John Grierson.- 18: 1973; Richard Meran Barsam.- 19: 1974; Erik Barnouw.- 20: 1976; Bill Nichols.- 21: 1976; Frederick Wiseman.- 22: 1977; Vivian Sobchack.- 23: 1981; Jean Rouch.- 24: 1983; Noël Carroll (et al.).- 25: 1983; Bill Nichols.- 26: 1984; Thomas Waugh.- 27: 1986; Michael Renov.- 28: 1987; Carl Rendit Plantinga.- 29: 1988; Joris Ivens.- 30: 1988; Brian Winston.- 31: 1990; Trinh. T. Minh-ha.
About the author
Dan Geva is Professor of Film at Beit-Berl College, a research fellow at the University of Haifa, Israel.
Summary
A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1960–1990 is the second book in a three-volume set. It offers a systematic hermeneutical reading of thirty definitions of Documentary from 1960 to 1990—by then a familiar, already used, and “abused” dialectical object of thought and practice. The book progresses chronologically through three decades of ongoing efforts by documentarians, theorists, historians, and philosophers to define Documentary, examining the philosophical foundations, ethical implications, and evolving documentarological sensibilities of these definitions. It also reassesses the intense ontological debates about Documentary, highlighting the discourse's expanding definitional landscape. Building on the first volume, which examined thirty definitions from 1895 to 1959, this work weaves an intricate hermeneutical network of interconnections among all sixty definitions. It further anticipates the third volume, which will analyze forty additional definitions of Documentary from 1991 to the present, offering a comprehensive philosophical history of the evolution of Documentary as both concept and practice.
