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Index
A
Abrash, Barbara, x
Achkar, David, 102
Adair, John, 106–7
advocacy film. See also third cinema
cinema verité and, 87
collectives of, 82
CP and, 79–81
Flaherty, Robert, influence on, 86
Godard group for, 82
Godard influence on, 86
government propaganda documentary v., 77–78
Great Depression and, 79
Grierson, John, influence on, 86
Ivens and, 79
legacy of, 87–91
Marker group for, 82
Moore v., 78
Stoney and, 87–88
Vertov influence on, 86
Afrique, Je Te Plumerai (Africa, I Will Fleece You), 102
Akomfrah, John, 101–2
Allah, Tantou, 102
Allen, Woody, 88
Alvarez, Santiago, 83
American Civil Liberties Union, 77
American Masters, 95–96
An American Family, 55
Anderson, Carolyn, 53
Anderson, Lindsay, 46
on cinema verité, 52–53
Anderson, Robin, 109
Anderson, Thom, 15–16
Andy Warhol, 96
Anger, Kenneth, 16
An Inconvenient Truth, 7–8, 122, 123
Anka, Paul, 47
Anstey, Edgar, 34
À Propos de Nice, 15
Apta, Jan, 51
art films
conventions v., 14, 17–18
optic experiments of, 16
sound experiments of, 17–18
Asch, Tim, 110–11
The Atomic Café, 75
Attenborough, David, 124
Australian National Film Board, 36
The Ax Fight, 110–11, 132
B
Babakiueria, 13
Bagwell, Orlando, x–xi
Banks and the Poor, 59
Bar-Lev, Amir, 104
Barnouw, Erik, x, 50, 73–74, 129–32
Barsam, Richard, 131
The Battle of Chile (La Batalla de Chile), 85, 103
Chile, Obstinate Memory and, 104
impact of, 90
The Battle of San Piedro, 73
The Battle of the Somme, 65
Beattie, Keith, 132
Beauviola, Jean-Pierre, 46
Belson, Jordan, 16
Benson, Thomas, 53
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, 14–15
Best in Show, 14
Big Cat, 121
Binford, Mira, 104
Bing, Wang, 45
Birri, Fernando, 83–84
Birth of a Nation, 27
Black Audio Collective, 101
Blank, Les, x, 106
Blood of the Beasts (Le sang des bêtes), 46
Bluem, A. William, 53
Blue Planet, 120
Blue Vinyl, 8
Body Beautiful, 102
Border War, 90
Borinage, 79, 90–91
Bousé, Derek, 123
Brakhage, Stan, 16
Brandeis, Louis, 77
Brault, Michael, 53
Brave New Films, 6–7, 90
Britten, Benjamin, 34
Broderick, Peter, 21
Broomfield, Nick, 55
Brottman, Mikita, 96
Bumming in Beijing, 87
Buñuel, Luis, 13
Burns, Ken, 13
on The Civil War, 94
The Civil War by, 93–94
critical opinion on work of, 94
Burton, Julianne, 134
Bus 174, 8–9
C
Cabra Marcado para Morrer (Twenty Years Later, a.k.a. A Man Listed to Die), 102, 104
Cadillac Desert, 105
Canadian National Film Board, 18, 36, 38, 47–48,
75, 115
Cane Toads, 122
Cannibal Tours, 114
Capra, Frank, 70, 72–73
on government propaganda documentary, 74
career beginnings
of Flaherty, Robert, 27
of Grierson, John, 32–33
of Vertov, 39–40
Carey, James, 5
Carroll, Noël
on cinema verité, 53
on documentary and realism, 133
Cavalcanti, Alberto, 15
CBS Reports, 58
significant results from, 60
Celsius 41.11, 78
Chagnon, Napoleon, 110–11
Challenge for Change, 47, 49
Chanan, Michael, 134
Chang, 107
Checkpoint, 9
Cheiro de Pequi (The Smell of the Pequi Fruit), 115, 116
Chequerboard, 58
The Chicago Maternity Center Story, 88
Chicano!, 99–100
Chile, Obstinate Memory, 103, 104
Chronicle of a Summer, 51, 112
Cinema-Eye (Kino-Glaz), 41–42
cinema verité
advocacy film and, 87
in Britain, 46
in Canada, 46–47, 49
controversy with, 51–52
corporate struggles with, 47
ethics and, 54–55
evolution of, 45–49
in France, 46
present state of, 55
public affairs documentary and, 63
style of, 44–45
in United States, 46–47
city symphony films, 14–16
The Civil War, 93–94
Close-Up!, 58
Communist Party (CP)
advocacy film and, 79–81
The Spanish Earth and, 80
Connelly, Bob, 109
Control Room, 125
conventions
art films v., 14, 17–18
business realities and, 18
documentary, 11–12
of ethnographic film, 108–9
of public affairs documentary, 62–63
satire of, 13
Cooper, Merian C., 107
Coutinho, Eduardo, 102, 104
Cowell, Adrian, 60
Coyote, Peter, 90–91
CP. See Communist Party
Cree Hunters of the Mistassini, 115
critical opinion
on work of Burns, 94
on work of Flaherty, Robert, 31–32
on work of Grierson, John, 36–37
on work of Maysles, Albert, 55
on work of Maysles, David, 55
on work of public affairs documentary, 63–64
on work of Vertov, 41
on work of Wiseman, 53
The Crocodile Hunter, 119
Crumb, 55
Curtis, Adam, 60
Curtis, Edward S., 28
Cutler, R.J., 50
D
Daum, Menachem, 104
Davis, Peter, 53–54
influential films of, 62
Dead Birds, 108
de Antonio, Emile, 24, 62
Decade of Destruction, 60
The Defense of the United States, 60
Demme, Jonathan, 135
Derrida, 96–97
Dewey, John, 5
Dhrupad, 17
Diamonds in the Snow, 104
Dick, Kirby, 96–97
Disappearing World, 108
docudramas, 23
documentary. See also advocacy film; art films; city symphony films; docudramas; ethnographic film; government propaganda documentary; historical documentary; mockumentary; nature documentary; personal diary format; public affairs documentary
analytical scholarship of, 131–33
audience expectations with, 2–3
categorization of, 132
conventions of, 11–12
defining, 1–3, 9–10
evolution of, 125–28
fiction film v., 2, 12, 133
forms of, 10–12
historical texts of, 129–31
new technologies and, 126–28
public issues and, 4–9
reality and, 5, 9–12
revenues of, 5
scholarship of, 128–29, 133–36
terms of, 3–4
tools of, 10–11
Documentary (Barnouw), 129–31
Documentary Box, 134
Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, 95
Documentary Film: The Use of the Film Medium to Interpret Creativity and in Social Terms the Life of the People as it Exists in Reality (Rotha), 129
The Documentary Idea (Ellis), 131
Dogtown and Z-Boys, 104
Dont Look Back, 53, 135
Drew, Robert, 46–47
on documentaries of past, 51
public affairs documentary and, 63
Drifters, 33
Dziga Vertov group, 82
E
Edgerton, Gary, 94
Eisenstein, Sergi, 42–43
The Eleventh Year, 42
Ellis, Jack, 131
Else, Jon
on accuracy in film, 105
ethical concerns of, 22
story structure and, 12
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On, 99
End of the Dialogue (Phela-Ndaba), 82
Enthusiasm, 42
The Eternal Jew, 6
ethics
cinema verité and, 54–55
controversial approaches and, 23–25
Else concerns on, 22
ethnographic film and, 116–17
Ginsburg on ethnographic film and, 116–17
government propaganda documentary and, 74–75
of interviews, 98–99
nature documentary and, 123–24
Nicholas and, 22
public affairs documentary and, 63–64
reenactment and, 22–23
ethnographic film
audiences and, 117
conventions of, 108–9
defining, 106
ethics and, 116–17
Ginsburg on ethics in, 116–17
indigenous creators in, 114–17
revenues from, 107
science and, 109–11
subject participation in, 113–14
Eyes on the Prize, 99
Eye Spy, 76
F
Fahrenheit 9/11, ix, 1
Celsius 41.11 v., 78
propaganda v., 7
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty, 92–93
Faloni, Luigi, 32
Farocki, Harun, 24
Farrebique, 119
fiction film, documentary v., 2, 12, 133
Field, Connie, 99
Fighter, 104
First Contact, 109
Flaherty, Frances, 31
Flaherty, Robert, 2–3, 108, 127, 129–30, 132
advocacy film influenced by, 86
appeal of, 30–31
artistic choices of, 28, 30
career beginnings of, 27
corporate sponsors and, 20
critical opinion on work of, 31–32
Grierson, John, influenced by, 33
Grierson, John, v., 38
Grierson, John, working with, 34
legacy of, 32
on Nanook of the North, 28–29
realism of, 25–26
Rouch influenced by, 111
The Spanish Earth influenced by, 80
Stoney influenced by, 30–31
themes of, 29–30
Vertov v., 44
Fog of War, 97
The Ford Foundation, x–xi
Forest of Bliss, 108
Forgáacs, Peter, 104
The Forgotten Imperial Army, 49
formalism, 26
Forward, Soviet!, 42
Four Corners, 58
Fourth World War, 126
Fox, Beryl, 61
Fragrant Jewel Island, 86<
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Franju, Georges, 46
Freedom Files, 77
Friendly, Fred, 57
From the Ikpeng Children to the World, 116
From the Pole to the Equator, 118
Frontline, 59–60
funding
corporate, 20–21
direct sale, 21–22
government, 18–20
G
Gandhi, 23
The Garden of Earthly Delights, 16
Gardner, Robert, 108
Getino, Octavio, 84
Gibson, Evelyn, x–xi
Gimme Shelter, 55
Ginsburg, Faye, 58
on ethics in ethnographic film, 116–17
The Gleaners and I (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse), 45
Godard, Jean-Luc
advocacy film group of, 82
advocacy film influenced by, 86
on cinema verité, 52
Godmilow, Jill, 24–25
Gold, Dan, 8
Goldenberg, Sonia, 76
The Good Fight, 100
Gore, Al, 7–8, 122
government funding, 18–20
government propaganda documentary
advocacy film v., 77–78
Britain and, 66, 68–69, 72
Canada and, 75
effectiveness of, 71, 73–74
ethics and, 74–75
format of, 65
Grierson, John, and, 67
Japan and, 66, 71, 73–74, 75
legacy of, 75–77
Lorentz and, 67
Nazi Germany and, 65–66, 68, 71
public affairs documentary v., 65
Soviets and, 66
United States and, 66–67, 70–71, 72–73
Vertov and, 67
World War I and, 65
Grass, 107
The Great Adventure, 119
Greene, Felix, 61
Greenfield, Lauren, 50
Greenwald, Robert, 21
Grierson, John, 3, 31, 127, 129–30, 132
advocacy film influenced by, 86
career beginnings of, 32–33
on Challenge for Change, 49
critical opinion on work of, 36–37
first films of, 33–35
on Flaherty, Robert, 35
Flaherty, Robert, influence on, 33
Flaherty, Robert, v., 38
Flaherty, Robert, working with, 34
government propaganda documentary and, 67, 74–75
influence of, 35–36
legacy of, 37–38
on Moana, 33
realism of, 25–26
on social function of documentary, 35
third cinema v., 84
Vertov and influence on, 44
Grierson, Ruby, 33–34
Griffith, D.W., 27
Grizzly Man, 122
Guggenheim, Davis, 7–8, 122
Guynn, William, 133
Guzmáan, Patricio
The Battle of Chile and, 85
Chile, Obstinate Memory and, 103–4
Ivens and, 85
H
Hampton, Henry, x, 99, 128
Handsworth Songs, 101–2
Hansen, Jim, 8
Happy Mother’s Day, 47