Three Documentary Filmmakers Errol Morris, Ross Mcelwee, Jean Rouch

Informationen zum Autor William Rothman is Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Miami. His many books include Tuitions and Intuitions: Essays at the Intersection of Film Criticism and Philosophy and Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze, Second Edition , both also published by SUNY Press. Klappentext Uses new critical approaches to demonstrate deep affinities in these vastly different filmmakers' philosophies on film, fantasy, and reality.Film study has tended to treat documentary as a marginal form, but as the essays in Three Documentary Filmmakers demonstrate, the films of Jean Rouch, Ross McElwee, and Errol Morris call for, and reward, the sort of criticism expected of serious works in any medium. However, critical methods that illuminate what makes Citizen Kane a great film are not adequate for expressing what it is about Rouch's The Funeral at Bongo: The Old Annaï, McElwee's Time Indefinite, and Morris's The Fog of War that makes them-each in its own way-great films as well. Although these filmmakers differ strikingly from one another, their films are deeply philosophical and personal, and explore the paradoxical relationships between fantasy and reality, self and world, fiction and documentary, dreams and film, filming and living. It is a challenge to find terms of criticism capable of illuminating such works, and the essays in this book rise to that challenge.

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• Assisted by: William Rothman (Editor), Rothman William (Editor)
• Authors: William (EDT) Rothman, William Rothman
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 05.03.2009
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV
• EAN: 9781438425023
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-2502-3
• Pages: 304
• Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinem; Suny Series, Horizons of Cinem; SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
• Subjects: Philosophy: aesthetics; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism; Film history, theory or criticism