Theorizing Documentary

A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form. Questions addressed include What is documentary?' and How fictional is nonfiction?'

Autorentext

Michael Renov

Zusammenfassung
A collection of essays that looks at specific issues related to the film documentary form. Types of documentary include educational TV, personality profiles, ethnography and polemic tracts. The authors address such questions as "What is documentary?" and "How fictional is non-fiction?".

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Introduction, Michael Renov; Chapter 2 Toward a Poetics of Documentary, Michael Renov; Chapter 3 The Documentary Film as Scientific Inscription, Brian Winston; Chapter 4 Document and Documentary, Philip Rosen; Chapter 5 ), pp. 2950., Trinh T. Minh-ha; Chapter 6 Jargons of Authenticity (Three American Moments), Paul Arthur; Chapter 7 Constantly Performing the Documentary, Susan Scheibler; Chapter 8 (Not) Looking for Origins, Ana M. López; Chapter 9 Notes on AIDS and its Combatants, Bill Horrigan; Chapter 10 Getting to Know You, Bill Nichols;