The Philosophy of Documentary Film

ForewordAt the Center of Our AgeTimothy CorriganIntroductionRepresentative Qualities and Questions of Documentary FilmDavid LaRoccaPart I: The Medium, Morals, and Metaphysics of Documentary FilmChapter 1: What Photography Calls Thinking: Theoretical Considerations on the Power of the Photographic Basis of CinemaStanley CavellChapter 2: Cinematic Representation and Spatial Realism: Reflections After/Upon Andre BazinNoel CarrollChapter 3: Documentary Traces: Film and the Content of PhotographsGregory CurrieChapter 4: The Limits of Appropriation: Subjectivist Accounts of the Fiction/NonfictionDistinctionCarl PlantingaChapter 5: Inscribing Ethical Space: Ten Propositions on Death and DocumentaryVivian SobchackPart II: Strategies and Styles of Documenting with FilmChapter 6: Before Documentary: Early Nonfiction Films and the "View" AestheticTom GunningChapter 7: Ruminating on the Ideologies of Nature FilmScott MacDonaldChapter 8: Jean Rouch's Cine-trance and Modes of Experimental Ethnofiction FilmmakingWilliam RothmanChapter 9: The Ecstasy of Time Travel in Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten DreamsWilliam DayChapter 10: Habitats of Documentary: Landscapes, Color Fields, and Ecologies in the Avant-Docs of Vincent GrenierClaudia Pederson and Patricia R. ZimmermannPart III: Documentary Theorist-Filmmakers at WorkChapter 11: Promises and Contracts Found in the Archive Are Not About the Past: Renewing Civil Alliances-Palestine 1947-48Ariella AzoulayChapter 12: "See and Remember": The Golden Days of Said OtrukDiana AllanChapter 13: Intimacy, Modesty, Silence: Documentary Filmmaking in the Face of Trauma Mieke BalChapter 14: Provoking the Truth: Applying the Method of Cinema VeriteBernadette WegensteinChapter 15: Reenvisioning Dziga Vertov: 10 Enduring Diktats for Documentary CinemaDan GevaChapter 16: Whose Strife is it Anyway? The Erosion of Agency in the Cinematic Production of 	Kitchen Sink RealismElan Gamaker Chapter 17: Redefining Documentary Materialism: from Actuality to Virtuality in Victor Erice's Dream of LightSelmin KaraPart IV: Interventions and Reconstitutions of Documentary Modes, Methods, and MeaningsChapter 18: Four and a Half Film FallaciesRick AltmanChapter 19: The Dogma 95 Manifesto and The Vow of ChastityLars von Trier and Thomas VinterbergChapter 20: Minnesota Declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary CinemaWerner HerzogChapter 21: Omission and Oversight in Close Reading-The Final Moments of Frederick 	Wiseman's High School	V. F. PerkinsChapter 22: Cinematic Consciousness: Animal Subjectivity, Activist Rhetoric, and the Problem of Other Minds in BlackfishJennifer L. McMahonChapter 23: Understanding (and) the Legacy of the Trace: Reflections After Carroll, Currie, and Plantinga	Keith DrommChapter 24: The Big Short: Adam McKay's Vehicle for Truth ClaimsK. L. EvansChapter 25: Letter to Errol Morris: Feelings of Revulsion and the Limits of Academic Discourse Bill NicholsPart V: Auto/biography and the Composition of Identity in Documentary FilmChapter 26: "You are Never Alone": On Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's Zidane: A Twenty-First Century PortraitMichael FriedChapter 27: On Patience (After Sebald): Documentary as a True Portrait of SensibilityGarry L. HagbergChapter 28: Fiction and Nonfiction in Chantal Akerman's FilmsCharles WarrenChapter 29: Verite Fiction, Dramatized Documentary: On Michelle Citron's Aesthetic ProvocationsLinda WilliamsChapter 30: "Deceiving into the Truth": The Indirect Cinema of Stories We Tell and The Act of Killing	Karen D. HoffmanChapter 31: A Reality Rescinded: The Transformative Effects of Fraud in I'm Still HereDavid LaRocca