American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age: Depictions of War in Burns, Moore, and Morris

ISBN-13: 9781138548374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 176 str.

Lucia Ricciardelli

Opis

This book examines the recent challenges to the conventions of realist documentary through the lens of war documentary films by Ken Burns, Michael Moore, and Errol Morris. Ricciardelli examines how postcolonial critiques of historicism and the advent of digitization have affected the narrative structure of documentary film and the shaping of historical consciousness through cinematic representation.

Spis treści

Part I: The Realist Documentary Tradition in the Postmodern Age  Introduction: The Postmodern Attack on Historicism, Nationalism, Rationalism, and Realism  1. Realist Documentary: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How?  2. The Demise of the Academic Critique of Realism: Phenomenological Approaches in Documentary Studies Scholarship  Part II: Audiovisual Historical Narration in the Age of Digitization  3. The Impact of Digital Technology on Documentary Filmmaking  4. From "Nanook of the North" to Social-Networking Websites: Shaping Historical Consciousness in the Digital Age  Part III: American Documentary Filmmaking in the Postmodern Age  5. Ken Burns: The Master of Consensus in the Age of Dissent  6. Michael Moore: The Subjective/Objective Dichotomy  7. Errol Morris: ‘Interrotroning’ the Past for the Present  Conclusion: The Demise of American Realist Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age?

O autorze

Lucia Ricciardelli is Assistant Professor in the School of Film and Photography at Montana State University, US.