The Philosophy of Documentary Film
Foreword by Timothy Corrigan University of Pennsylvani Contributions by Diana Allan, Rick Altman, Ariella Azoulay, Mieke Bal, Noël Carroll, Stanley Cavell, Gregory Currie, William Day, Keith Dromm, K. L. Evans, Michael Fried, Elan Gamaker, Dan Geva, Tom Gunning, Erika, Werner Herzog, Karen D. Hoffman, Selmin Kara, David LaRocca Visiting Scholar, Department of English, Cornell University, Scott MacDonald, Jennifer L. McMahon, Bill Nichols, Claudia Pederson, V. F. Perkins, Carl Plantinga, editor of Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion, William Rothman Director of the Graduate, Vivian Sobchack, Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Charles Warren, Bernadette Wegenstein, Linda Williams, Patricia R. Zimmermann Edited by David LaRocca Visiting Scholar, Department of English, Cornell University
Publication date:
20 December 2016Length of book:
644 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksDimensions:
238x160mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781498504515
The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen studies, cognitive cultural studies, narratology, philosophy, poetics, politics, and political theory; and as a special aspect of the volume, theorist-filmmakers make their thoughts known as well. Consequently, the critical reflections gathered here are decidedly pluralistic and heterogeneous, inviting—not bracketing or partitioning—the dynamism and diversity of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and even natural sciences (in so far as we are biological beings who are trying to track our cognitive and perceptual understanding of a nonbiological thing—namely, film, whether celluloid-based or in digital form); these disciplines, so habitually cordoned off from one another, are brought together into a shared conversation about a common object and domain of investigation.
This book will be of interest to theorists and practitioners of nonfiction film; to emerging and established scholars contributing to the secondary literature; and to those who are intrigued by the kinds of questions and claims that seem native to nonfiction film, and who may wish to explore some critical responses to them written in engaging language.
This book will be of interest to theorists and practitioners of nonfiction film; to emerging and established scholars contributing to the secondary literature; and to those who are intrigued by the kinds of questions and claims that seem native to nonfiction film, and who may wish to explore some critical responses to them written in engaging language.
The Philosophy of Documentary Film undoubtedly bears witness to the complexity and the density of its subject matter. The texts included in the volume cover a wide range of topics and approaches, and they raise multiple philosophical questions inherent to documentary films.