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Documentary Film Classics offers close readings on a number of major films, such as Nanook of the North, Land Without Bread, Night and Fog, Chronicle of a Summer and Don't Look Back. Spanning the history of the documentary film tradition, William Rothman analyses the philosophical and historical issues and themes implicit in these works. Designed to guide film students through the 'texts' of a wide range of documentaries, his readings also focus on the achievements of these works as films per se.

Documentary films --- History and criticism. --- Film: persons --- #SBIB:309H1326 --- #SBIB:309H1329 --- #SBIB:309H520 --- #SBIB:AANKOOP --- History and criticism --- Films met een amusementsfunctie en/of esthetische functie: genres en richtingen --- Films met een informatieve functie (met inbegrip van de documentaire film) --- Audiovisuele communicatie: algemene werken --- Documentaires --- Televisie --- Praktijk --- Audiovisuele media --- Documentaire (genre) --- Onderzoek --- Geweld

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The 'I' of the Camera has become a classic in the literature of film. Offering alternatives to the viewing and criticism of film, William Rothman challenges readers to think about film in adventurous ways that are more open to movies and our experience of them. In a series of eloquent essays examining particular films, filmmakers, genres and movements, and the 'Americanness' of American film, Rothman argues compellingly that movies have inherited the philosophical perspective of American transcendentalism. This second edition contains all of the essays that made the book a benchmark of film criticism. It also includes fourteen essays, written subsequent to the book's original publication, as well as a new foreword. The new chapters further broaden the scope of the volume, fleshing out its vision of film history and illuminating the author's critical method and the philosophical perspective that informs it.

Motion pictures. --- Film criticism. --- Motion picture criticism --- Motion pictures --- Moving-picture criticism --- Criticism --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Evaluation --- History and criticism

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Motion pictures --- Philosophy. --- Cavell, Stanley, --- 82:3 --- 82:791.43 --- Philosophy --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Literatuur en film --- 82:3 Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- 82:791.43 Literatuur en film --- Film --- Cavell, Stanley

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Today's film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives-they're just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to "e classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming. Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has made a great impact on film scholarship today, including Rudolf Arnheim, Sergei Eisenstein, Michel Foucault, Siegfried Kracauer, and Judith Butler. Rather than just discussing each theorist's ideas in the abstract, the book shows how those concepts might be applied when interpreting specific films by including an analysis of both a classic film and a contemporary one. It thus demonstrates how theory can help us better appreciate films from all eras and genres: from Hugo to Vertigo, from City Lights to Sunset Blvd., and from Young Mr. Lincoln to A.I. and Wall-E. The volume's contributors are all experts on their chosen theorist's work and, furthermore, are skilled at explaining that thinker's key ideas and terms to readers who are not yet familiar with them. Thinking in the Dark is not only a valuable resource for teachers and students of film, it's also a fun read, one that teaches us all how to view familiar films through new eyes. Theorists examined in this volume are: Rudolf Arnheim, Béla Balázs, Roland Barthes, André Bazin, Walter Benjamin, Judith Butler, Stanley Cavell, Michel Chion, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Douchet, Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Epstein, Michel Foucault, Siegfried Kracauer, Jacques Lacan, Vachel Lindsay, Christian Metz, Hugo Münsterberg, V. F. Perkins, Jacques Rancière, and Jean Rouch.

Film --- Motion pictures --- Film critics. --- Film criticism. --- Motion picture critics --- Moving-picture critics --- Critics --- Motion picture criticism --- Moving-picture criticism --- Criticism --- Philosophy. --- Evaluation