Kill the Documentary : : A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars / / Jill Godmilow.
Can the documentary be useful? Can a film change how its viewers think about the world and their potential role in it? In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. She critiques documentary films from Nanook of the N...
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Godmilow, Jill, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Kill the Documentary : A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars / Jill Godmilow. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Investigating Visible Evidence: New Challenges for Documentary Frontmatter -- Contents -- Manifestly Radical: A Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- I Call This Book a Letter -- Introduction— a Letter to Filmmakers -- 1. Abandon the Conventional Documentary— Reject Realism as the Only Authentic Nonfiction Form -- 2. Take Action— Make Useful Postrealist Films -- 3. Forty Postrealist Strategies to Learn from and Borrow -- 4. The Toolkit -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Can the documentary be useful? Can a film change how its viewers think about the world and their potential role in it? In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. She critiques documentary films from Nanook of the North to the recent Ken Burns/Lynn Novick series The Vietnam War. Tethered to what Godmilow calls the “pedigree of the real” and the “pornography of the real,” they fail to activate their viewers’ engagement with historical or present-day problems. Whether depicting the hardships of poverty or the horrors of war, conventional documentaries produce an “us-watching-them” mode that ultimately reinforces self-satisfaction and self-absorption.In place of the conventional documentary, Godmilow advocates for a “postrealist” cinema. Instead of offering the faux empathy and sentimental spectacle of mainstream documentaries, postrealist nonfiction films are acts of resistance. They are experimental, interventionist, performative, and transformative. Godmilow demonstrates how a film can produce meaningful, useful experience by forcefully challenging ways of knowing and how viewers come to understand the world. She considers her own career as a filmmaker as well as the formal and political strategies of artists such as Luis Buñuel, Georges Franju, Harun Farocki, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Rithy Panh, and other directors. Both manifesto and guidebook, Kill the Documentary proposes provocative new ways of making and watching films. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Documentary films Philosophy. PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Documentary. bisacsh Nichols, Bill, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110749663 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English 9783110993752 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 9783110993738 ZDB-23-DKU https://doi.org/10.7312/godm20276 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231554701 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231554701/original |
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