Three Documentary Filmmakers

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Film study has tended to treat documentary as a marginal form, but as the essays in Three Documentary Filmmakers demonstrate, the films of Jean Rouch, Ross McElwee, and Errol Morris call for, and reward, the sort of criticism expected of serious works in any medium. However, critical methods that illuminate what makes Citizen Kane a great film are not adequate for expressing what it is about Rouch's The Funeral at Bongo: The Old Annaï, McElwee's Time Indefinite, and Morris's The Fog of War that makes them—each in its own way—great films as well. Although these filmmakers differ strikingly from one another, their films are deeply philosophical and personal, and explore the paradoxical relationships between fantasy and reality, self and world, fiction and documentary, dreams and film, filming and living. It is a challenge to find terms of criticism capable of illuminating such works, and the essays in this book rise to that challenge.

Introduction
William Rothman

Part 1. Errol Morris: The Fog of Film

1. Errol Morris’s Irony
Gilberto Perez

2. Errol Morris’s Forms of Control
Ira Jaffe

3. The Philosophy of Errol Morris: Ten Lessons
Carl Plantinga

Part 2. Ross McElwee: I Film Therefore I Am

4. Coincidence in Ross McElwee’s Documentaries
Diane Stevenson

5. Reflections on Bright Leaves
Marian Keane

6. Drifting in Time: Ross McElwee’s Time Indefinite
Jim Lane

7. Surprise and Pain, Writing and Film
Charles Warren

8. Sometimes Daddies Don’t Talk about Things like That
William Rothman

Part 3. Jean Rouch: The Filmmaker as Provocateur

9. Jean Rouch and the Power of the Between
Paul Stoller

10. The Pause of the World
Daniel Morgan

11. Jean Rouch’s Les maîtres fous: Documentary of Seduction, Seduction of Documentary
Alan Cholodenko

12. Petit à Petit and The Lion Hunters
Michael Laramee

13. Jean Rouch as Film Artist: Tourou and Bitti,The Old Anaï, Ambara Dama
William Rothman

Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Película fotográfica
• Visual culture
• History of film
• Film

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 05 mars 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438425160
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Postphenomenology
and TechnoscienceSUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Lenore Langsdorf, editorPostphenomenology
and Technoscience
The Peking University Lectures
Don IhdePublished by
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Ihde, Don, 1934–
Postphenomenology and technoscience : the Peking University lectures.
p. cm. — (SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-2621-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4384-2622-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Phenomenology. 2. Postmodernism. 3. Philosophy, Modern—20th
century. 4. Technology. I. Title.
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10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Contents
List of Figures vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 What Is Postphenomenology? 5
Chapter 2 Technoscience and Postphenomenology 25
Chapter 3 Visualizing the Invisible: Imaging Technologies 45
Chapter 4 Do Things Speak?: Material Hermeneutics 63
Notes 81
Selected Bibliography 85
Index 87List of Figures
Chapter 1
Figure 1.1 Multistable Figure A 12
Credit: Experimental Phenomenology
(State University of New York Press, 1986)
Figure 1.2 Multistable Figure B 13
Credit:
ork Press, 1986)
Figure 1.3 Multistable Figure C 15
Credit: Experimental Phenomenology
(State University of New York Press, 1986)
Figure 1.4 English Longbow 17
Credit: Drawing by Max Liboiron
Figure 1.5 Mongolian Horse Bow 18
Cron
Figure 1.6 Chinese “Artillary” Bow 19
Credit: Drawing by Max Liboiron
Chapter 2
Figure 2.1 Egyptian Rope Stretching 30
Credit: Drawing by Don Ihde
Figure 2.2 Egyptian “Rope-Style” Numbers 31
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viiviii Illustrations
Chapter 3
Figure 3.1 Eratosthenes’ Earth Measurement 47
Credit: Drawing by Don Ihde
Figure 3.2 Arab Astrolabe 48
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Figure 3.3 Electromagnetic Spectrum 49
Credit: Drawing by Don Ihde
Figure 3.4 Galileo with and without a Telescope 51
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Figure 3.4 elescope
Credit: Drawing by Don Ihde
Figure 3.5 Historical Stages of Astronomy 53
Credit: Chart by Don Ihde
Figure 3.6 “Slices” of the EMS Spectrum: X-ray/Optical/
Infrared/Radio 55
Credit: NASA/Gov
Figure 3.7 Digital Exaggeration: Venus Volcano 58
Credit: Drawing by Don Ihde
Figure 3.8 Ihde’s Brain: CT Scan 59
Credit: St. Charles Hospital, Author’s Copy of Scan
Chapter Four
Figure 4.1 Star Spectra 66
Credit: American Physical Society, 1928
Figure 4.2 Acheulean Hand Axe 72
Credit: Don Ihde Collection
Figure 4.3 “Venus” Figure with Textiles 73
Credit: Redrawn by Don Ihde from
Arthistory Web siteIllustrations ix
Figure 4.4 Ocean Bottom Map 78
Credit: NOAA/Gov
Figure 4.5 Mapping by Multiple Means 79
Credit: Drawing by Don Ihde