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Author Nichols, Bill, 1942-
Title Speaking truths with film : evidence, ethics, politics in documentary / Bill Nichols.
Publisher Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Copyright date ©2016



Descript 1 online resource (xii, 281 pages) : illustrations
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Contents Documentary film and the modernist avant-garde -- Documentary reenactment and the fantasmatic subject -- Letter to Lynn Sachs about her film Investigation of a flame -- Breaking the frame, gender, violation and the avant-garde -- The coming of sound -- To see the world anew : revisiting the voice of documentary -- The sound of music -- The question of evidence : the power of rhetoric and the documentary film -- The terrorist event -- Remaking history : Jay Leyda, and the compilation film -- Restrepo : a case of inadvertent evidence -- The symptomatic biopic : Steve Jobs : the man in the machine -- Documentary ethics : doing the right thing -- Irony, paradox and the documentary : double meanings and double binds -- Letter to Errol Morris : feelings of revulsion and the limits of academic discourse -- Perpetrators, trauma and film -- San Francisco newsreel : collectives, politics, films -- The political documentary and the problem of impact.
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ISBN 9780520964587 (electronic bk.)
0520964586 (electronic bk.)
9780520290396 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520290399 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520290402 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520290402 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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Author Nichols, Bill, 1942-
Subject Documentary films -- History and criticism.
Descript 1 online resource (xii, 281 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Documentary film and the modernist avant-garde -- Documentary reenactment and the fantasmatic subject -- Letter to Lynn Sachs about her film Investigation of a flame -- Breaking the frame, gender, violation and the avant-garde -- The coming of sound -- To see the world anew : revisiting the voice of documentary -- The sound of music -- The question of evidence : the power of rhetoric and the documentary film -- The terrorist event -- Remaking history : Jay Leyda, and the compilation film -- Restrepo : a case of inadvertent evidence -- The symptomatic biopic : Steve Jobs : the man in the machine -- Documentary ethics : doing the right thing -- Irony, paradox and the documentary : double meanings and double binds -- Letter to Errol Morris : feelings of revulsion and the limits of academic discourse -- Perpetrators, trauma and film -- San Francisco newsreel : collectives, politics, films -- The political documentary and the problem of impact.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780520964587 (electronic bk.)
0520964586 (electronic bk.)
9780520290396 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520290399 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520290402 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520290402 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Author Nichols, Bill, 1942-
Subject Documentary films -- History and criticism.

Subject Documentary films -- History and criticism.
Descript 1 online resource (xii, 281 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Documentary film and the modernist avant-garde -- Documentary reenactment and the fantasmatic subject -- Letter to Lynn Sachs about her film Investigation of a flame -- Breaking the frame, gender, violation and the avant-garde -- The coming of sound -- To see the world anew : revisiting the voice of documentary -- The sound of music -- The question of evidence : the power of rhetoric and the documentary film -- The terrorist event -- Remaking history : Jay Leyda, and the compilation film -- Restrepo : a case of inadvertent evidence -- The symptomatic biopic : Steve Jobs : the man in the machine -- Documentary ethics : doing the right thing -- Irony, paradox and the documentary : double meanings and double binds -- Letter to Errol Morris : feelings of revulsion and the limits of academic discourse -- Perpetrators, trauma and film -- San Francisco newsreel : collectives, politics, films -- The political documentary and the problem of impact.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780520964587 (electronic bk.)
0520964586 (electronic bk.)
9780520290396 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520290399 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520290402 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520290402 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

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