Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary
| Book | Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Lia Tjandra |
| Photo Credit | iStock |
| Author photo/portrait | Nina Menconi |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Copyright Holder | The Regents of the University of California |
| Printed by | University of California Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | United States, California, Oakland |
| Copyright | 2016 |
| Pages / Font | 281 pages |
| ISBN 13 | 978-0-520-29040-2 |
| Barcode | 9 780520 290402 |
| Printer's Key | 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 |
| Chapters | Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART I. DOCUMENTARY MEETS THE NEIGHBORS: THE AVANT-GARDE AND FICTION FILM 1. Documentary Film and the Modernist Avant-Garde 2. Documentary Reenactment and the Fantasmatic Subject FURTHER REFLECTIONS: EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY 3. Letter to Lynn Sachs on Investigation of a Flame 4. Breaking the Frame: Gender, Violation, and the Avant-Garde PART II. THE AUDIO IN AUDIOVISUAL 5. Documentary Film and the Coming of Sound 6. To See the World Anew: Revisiting the Voice of Documentary FURTHER REFLECTIONS: MUSIC IN DOCUMENTARY 7. The Sound of Music PART III. BEYOND "JUST THE FACTS": EVIDENCE, INTERPRETATION, AND SOCIAL CONTEXT 8. The Question of Evidence: The Power of Rhetoric and the Documentary Film 9. The Terrorist Event FURTHER REFLECTIONS: THE MANY FORMS OF EVIDENCE 10. Remaking History: Jay Leyda and the Compilation Film 11. Restrepo: A Case of Inadvertent Evidence 12. The Symptomatic Biopic: Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine PART IV. ETHICS AND IRONY IN DOCUMENTARY 13. Documentary Ethics: Doing the Right Thing 14. Irony, Paradox, and the Documentary: Double Meanings and Double Binds FURTHER REFLECTIONS: NOTES ON TRAUMA 15. Letter to Errol Morris: Feelings of Revulsion and the Limits of Academic Discourse 16. Perpetrators, Trauma, and Film PART V. POLITICS AND THE DOCUMENTARY FILM 17. San Francisco Newsreel: Collectives, Politics, Films 18. The Political Documentary and the Question of Impact Notes Index |
| Notes | Cover illustration: Collage. Images from iStock.com. Manufactured in the United States of America UC Press has printed this book on Natures Natural |
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