Godmilow Kill the Documentary

A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55470-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Investigating Visible Evidence: New Challenges for Documentary

In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. In place of the conventional documentary, she advocates for a “postrealist” cinema.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Godmilow, Jill

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Dokumentarfilme
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Manifestly Radical: A Foreword, by Bill Nichols
Acknowledgments
I Call This Book a Letter
Introduction—a Letter to Filmmakers
1. Abandon the Conventional Documentary—Reject Realism as the Only Authentic Nonfiction Form
2. Take Action—Make Useful Postrealist Films
3. Forty Postrealist Strategies to Learn from and Borrow
4. The Toolkit
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jill Godmilow is professor emerita in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. Her acclaimed films include the Academy Award–nominated Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974); Waiting for the Moon (1987), which won best feature film at the Sundance Film Festival; and What Farocki Taught, which was featured at the 2000 Whitney Biennial. In 2015, she was knighted by President Komorowski of Poland and awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for her film Far From Poland.

Bill Nichols is professor emeritus in the School of Cinema, San Francisco State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Introduction to Documentary.