Machine generated contents note: New nonfiction film -- A certain ratio (of negation) -- Acts of experimentation ... -- 1.Nonfiction as a speculative mode of inquiry: Subjectivity and the films of Ben Rivers and Ben Russell -- Not documentary ... -- The mechanistic "in itself/the speculative treatment of subjectivity -- Part II -- A film about a film within a film adapted from a short story ... -- A marriage of form and content -- "I don't care about the Other. I am the Other." -- 2.(Self as) modele environments: Nonfiction film -- Into the abyss -- "What" -- "Who" -- 3.The Utopian promise: John Akomfrah's poetics of the archive -- The time of nonfiction -- A poet (in and) of the archive -- Back to a future -- The time for promises -- Conclusion -- 4."In my mind, my dreams are real": Abbas Kiarostami and the roots of new nonfiction film -- Before the law -- The becoming reality of fiction ... -- Kiarostami meets Erol Morris/Makhmalbaf meets Sabzian
Summary:
This is the first book length study to explore an area of film that has gathered increased attention in Documentary Studies. Dara Waldron explores `near documentary' as a mode of film which involves the creative intervention in real-life settings, offering extensive case study analyses. He proposes that `near documentary' is a mode of filmmaking which brings to fruition the tenuous relationship between artistic and epistemological inquiry, and can be distinguished from other modes of art documentary film: 'artefaction' (as defined by Stella Bruzzi) 'documentary fiction' (as coined by Jacques Ranciere) `art documentary' and the poetic mode (as defined by Bill Nichols).
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