Imagining Reality Pa

by Kevin Macdonald

Book Overview

Exploring the documentary film, this book traces its development from the first film shot by Louis Lumiere in 1895 to the last shaggy-dog story (Nick Broomfield's TV film, Tracking Down Maggie), and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571192025
• ISBN13: 9780571192021
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary

This anthology includes the following essays: "Filming Death" By Béla Balázs "Lowell Thomas and 'Lawrence of Arabia'" By Kevin Brownlow "Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life" By Merian C. Cooper "The Failings of 'Berlin'" By Siegfried Kracauer "Making 'Rain'" By Joris Ivens "Jean Painlevé" By Raymond Durgnat "First Principles of Documentary" By John Grierson "Leni Riefenstahl, Art and Propaganda" By Manohla Dargis "Worlds of Command" By Tom Waugh "Iwaskai and the Occupied Screen" By Erik Barnouw "'Nuit et Brouillard'" By Annette Insdorff "Warhol's 'Sleep'" By Jonas Mekas "Orson Welles's 'F for Fake'" By Richard Combs "'Phantom India'" By Louis Malle "Chris Marker and 'Sans Soleil'" By Terrence Rafferty "Narration Can be a Killer" By Robert Drew "Gimme Shelter" By Pauline Kael "Editing as a Four-Way Conversation" By Frederick Wiseman "Filming Torture Victims" By Haskell Wexler "'Roger & Me'" By Roger Ebert "Death of a Nation" By Ken Loach "The Unique Role of Documentaries" By Krzysztof Kieslowski "Werner Herzog's New Directions" By J. Hoberman "The Unpredictable Revelations of Nicolas Philibert" By Howard Feinstein "Clearing the Fog: Errol Morris Answers for His Film" By Livia Bloom "L.A. Confidential" By Amy Taubin "By No Half-Measure" By Kevin Macdonald "True Confessions, Sort Of" By Paul Arthur "Siamese Spin" By Chuck Stephens "The Egos Have Landed" By Jon Ronson "Paradocumentary in Iran" By Mark Cousins