Philosophy of Documentary Film (eBook)

David LaRocca is visiting assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York College at Cortland.

At the Center of Our AgeRepresentative Qualities and Questions of Documentary FilmWhat Photography Calls Thinking: Theoretical Considerations on the Power of the Photographic Basis of CinemaCinematic Representation and Spatial Realism: Reflections After/Upon André BazinChapter 3: Documentary Traces: Film and the Content of PhotographsThe Limits of Appropriation: Subjectivist Accounts of the Fiction/NonfictionDistinctionInscribing Ethical Space: Ten Propositions on Death and DocumentaryBefore Documentary: Early Nonfiction Films and the “View” AestheticRuminating on the Ideologies of Nature FilmJean Rouch’s Cine-trance and Modes of Experimental Ethnofiction FilmmakingThe Ecstasy of Time Travel in Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten DreamsHabitats of Documentary: Landscapes, Color Fields, and Ecologies in the Avant-Docs of Vincent GrenierPromises and Contracts Found in the Archive Are Not About the Past: Renewing Civil Alliances—Palestine 1947–48“See and Remember”: The Golden Days of Said OtrukIntimacy, Modesty, Silence: Documentary Filmmaking in the Face of Trauma Provoking the Truth: Applying the Method of Cinéma VéritéReenvisioning Dziga Vertov: 10 Enduring Diktats for Documentary CinemaWhose Strife is it Anyway? The Erosion of Agency in the Cinematic Production of Kitchen Sink RealismRedefining Documentary Materialism: from Actuality to Virtuality in Victor Erice’s Four and a Half Film FallaciesThe Dogma 95 Manifesto and The Vow of ChastityMinnesota Declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary CinemaOmission and Oversight in Close Reading—The Final Moments of Frederick Wiseman’s High SchoolCinematic Consciousness: Animal Subjectivity, Activist Rhetoric, and the Problem of Other Minds in BlackfishUnderstanding (and) the Legacy of the Trace: Reflections After Carroll, Currie, and Plantinga: Adam McKay’s Vehicle for Truth ClaimsLetter to Errol Morris: Feelings of Revulsion and the Limits of Academic Discourse “You are Never Alone”: On Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno’s Zidane: On Patience (After Sebald): Documentary as a True Portrait of SensibilityFiction and Nonfiction in Chantal Akerman’s FilmsVérité Fiction, Dramatized Documentary: On Michelle Citron’s Aesthetic Provocations“Deceiving into the Truth”: The Indirect Cinema of Stories We Tell and A Reality Rescinded: The Transformative Effects of Fraud in I’m Still HereDavid LaRocca