Three documentary filmmakers : Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, Jean Rouch /

"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 such serious works in any medium."--Back cover

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Other Authors: Rothman, William.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Albany : SUNY Press, ©2009.
Series:SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / William Rothman
  • Part 1. Errol Morris: or The Fog of Film
  • Errol Morris's irony / Gilberto Perez
  • Errol Morris's forms of control / Ira Jaffe
  • The philosophy of Errol Morris: ten lessons / Carl Plantinga
  • Part 2. Ross McElwee: I Film Therefore I Am
  • Coincidence in Ross McElwee's documentaries / Diane Stevenson
  • Reflections on bright leaves / Marian Keane
  • Drifting in time: Ross McElwee's time indefinite / Jim Lane
  • Surprise and pain, writing and film / Charles Warren
  • Sometimes daddies don't talk about things like that / William Rothman
  • Part 3. Jean Rouch: or The Filmmaker as Provocateur
  • Jean Rouch and the power of the between / Paul Stoller
  • The pause of the world / Daniel Morgan
  • Jean Rouch's les maîtres fous: documentary of seduction, seduction of documentary / Alan Cholodenko
  • Petit à petit and the lion hunters / Michael Laramee
  • Jean Rouch as film artist: Tourou and Bitti, The Old Anaï, Ambara Dama / William Rothman.