Claiming the Real de Brian Winston

Claiming the Real: Documentary: Grierson and Beyond

Brian Winston

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 noi 2008

Claiming the Real II describes the origins, development and current state of documentary cinema, and the social, political, industrial and ethical factors that determine its production. This new edition addresses the ethical quagmires, digital technologies and proliferating forms that have transformed documentary cinema.

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Preface I.- Preface to the 2nd edition.- PART I: THE CREATIVE TREATMENT OF ACTUALITY.-The Documentary and CGI.- The Documentary Film in 1914.- The Documentary as the Creative Treatment of Actuality.- PART II: CREATIVE: DOCUMENTARY AS ART.- Photography as Art.- The Documentarist as Explorer/Artist.- The Griersonian Artist.- Documentary Film and Realist Painting.- The Politics of Realism.- Running Away from Social Meaning.- Poor, Suffering Characters: Victims and Problem Moments.- Serious-Minded Chaps: Politics and Poetics.- He Never Used the Word Revolution.- To Command, and Cumulatively Command, the Mind of a Generation.- Running Away from Social Meaning in America.- Staatspolitisch Besonders Wertvoll.- To Win New Comrades for the Cause.- A Curious Comment.- PART III: TREATMENT: DOCUMENTARY AS DRAMA.- Life as Narrativised.- Chrono-Logic.- Non-Narrative: Works Better in the Head than on the Screen.- Sincere and Justifiable Reconstruction.- PART IV: ACTUALITY: DOCUMENTARY AS SCIENCE.- Photography as Science.- Science as Inscription.- Evidence in the Law.- Technologising the Documentary Agenda.- Documentary as Scientific Inscription: Film as Evidence.- Moments of Revelation.- This Objective-Subjective Stuff Is a Lot of Bullshit.- Kinopravda.- Film as Ethnography.- Film as Truth.- The Principles of Visual Anthropology.- Flies in the Soup: The Influence of Cinéma Vérité.- Flies on the Wall: The Influence of Direct Cinema.- PART V: THE POST-GRIERSONIAN DOCUMENTARY?.- The Naturalistic Illusion.- The Battlefields of Epistomology.- The Difference that Makes a Difference.- What Constraints?.- The Voluntary Consent of the Human Subject.- What Interests the Public.- The Nadir of Human Achievement.- The post-Griersonian Documentary: a tour d'horizon.- The post-Griersonian Documentary: The Farther Shore.- Do Not Be Afraid...- Envoi.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.