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The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen studies, cognitive cultural studies, narratology, philosophy, poetics, politics, and political theory; and as a special aspect of the volume, theorist-filmmakers make their thoughts known as well. Consequently, the critical reflections gathered here are decidedly pluralistic and heterogeneous, inviting-not bracketing or partitioning-the dynamism and diversity of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and even natural sciences (in so far as we are biological beings who are trying to track our cognitive and perceptual understanding of a nonbiological thing-namely, film, whether celluloid-based or in digital form); these disciplines, so habitually cordoned off from one another, are brought together into a shared conversation about a common object and domain of investigation.
This book will be of interest to theorists and practitioners of nonfiction film; to emerging and established scholars contributing to the secondary literature; and to those who are intrigued by the kinds of questions and claims that seem native to nonfiction film, and who may wish to explore some critical responses to them written in engaging language.
Table des matières
Foreword
At the Center of Our Age
Timothy Corrigan
Introduction
Representative Qualities and Questions of Documentary Film
David LaRocca
Part I: The Medium, Morals, and Metaphysics of Documentary Film
Chapter 1: What Photography Calls Thinking: Theoretical Considerations on the Power of the
Photographic Basis of Cinema
Stanley Cavell
Chapter 2: Cinematic Representation and Spatial Realism: Reflections After/Upon André Bazin
Noël Carroll
Chapter 3: Documentary Traces: Film and the Content of Photographs
Gregory Currie
Chapter 4: The Limits of Appropriation: Subjectivist Accounts of the Fiction/Nonfiction
Distinction
Carl Plantinga
Chapter 5: Inscribing Ethical Space: Ten Propositions on Death and Documentary
Vivian Sobchack
Part II: Strategies and Styles of Documenting with Film
Chapter 6: Before Documentary: Early Nonfiction Films and the "View" Aesthetic
Tom Gunning
Chapter 7: Ruminating on the Ideologies of Nature Film
Scott MacDonald
Chapter 8: Jean Rouch's Cine-trance and
A propos de l'auteur
David LaRocca is visiting assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York College at Cortland.
