Just Released! Proceedings CD-ROM of "The Documentary Tradition"
Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:04:11 -0500
2006 Proceedings CD - "The Documentary Tradition"
Eds. Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor, and James Knecht
ISBN: 0-9746905-4-6
(Libraries: $125 and Individuals: $25)
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
Table of Contents
Burns, Eisenstein, Grierson, & Wiseman
- "The influence of Stephen Tallents on 'John Grierson's
documentary school'"
by Scott Anthony
- "My Grierson: An Erstwhile Student Remembers"
by Gary Evans
- "Public Housing: Wiseman and Chicago's Institutions"
by Laurence Gervais-Linon
- "The Civil War: A Battleground of Meaning"
by Judith Lancioni
- "Optical Distortion in Eisenstein's Strike: a Metaphor for New
Vision"
by Ana Olenina
Direct Cinema & Art Of The Real
- "'Trust me...I'm a Screenwriter!' - Exploring Problems of
Narrative Structure and Closure in Contemporary Film's
Portrayal of 'The Real'"
by Craig Batty
- "The Snowshoers (Les Raquetteurs) (1958): defining moments of
local Quebec Identity"
by Tity de Vries
- "Sifting Through the Ashes: A Literary and Cinematic Approach
to Surveying The Life of Miguel Pinero"
by Van G. Garrett
- "Enlisted cinea or cinema for peace? Peace in Israeli cinema in
service of political Ideologies"
by Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan
- "Exposing The Showman: Joseph E. Levine and the Maysles
Brothers"
by Anthony T. McKenna
- "Moana, Tabu, and Legong: Silent Lyricism in the South Seas"
by Richard Ward & Rosalind Rountree
Docudrama & Reality TV
- "Visible Victims: the Politics of Suffering in Omagh"
by Aileen Blaney
- "When Fantasy Becomes Reality: Who Wants to Be a Superhero?"
by Kathy Merlock Jackson
- "Reality TV, from catch-phrase to catch-all-phrase? A
multidimensional taxonomic study of the hybrid forms,
practices and meanings of popular factual television formats"
by Jelle Mast
- "Donald Brittain's The Champions (1976-1986): Words That Glow
in the Dark"
by Ronald Smith
International Fare
- "Between 'Truth' and 'Truth' Production: Ambivalent
Translations of Vertov's Theory of the Interval in the
Documentaries of Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino"
by Stuart Davis
- "Im Toten Winkel (Blind Spot, 2002)-What Did Traudl Junge Know?
And When?"
by John Shelton Lawrence
- "For a Stronger Nation: Public Health Documentaries in Spain
Before the Civil War (1936-1939)"
by Enrique Perdiguero
- "Special Assignment: a South African investigative documentary
TV series and its strange origins in the Afrikaans anti-
apartheid press"
by Alette Schoon
Michael Moore & Errol Morris
- "Michael Moore and political documentary in an age of
infotainment. A case study on the role and audience perceptions
of Belgian documentary filmmakers"
by Frank Boddin & Kristel Vandebrande
- "Transformation and Truth" The body as signifier of fidelity in
Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me (2004)"
by Peri Bradley
- "Bodies and War: Hearts and Minds and Fahrenheit 9/11"
by Jeffrey Chown
- "'What Did You Say You'd Downsize?': Michael Moore's Films and
the Social Consequences of Deindustrialization"
by Juan Jose Cruz
- "The Fog of Documentary: Errol Morris and Mutating
Expectations"
by Pam Fossen
- "Race, Place, and Power in the Documentaries of Michael Moore"
by Walter D. Greason
Mockumentaries & Real Life Documentaries
- "Through a Controversial Lens: Teaching the PBS Emma Goldman
Documentary"
by Kersten Jacobson Biehn
- "Fun With Auntie Zana: Born into Brothels and the Fragile
Integrity of the Documentary Subject"
by Lindsay Coleman
- "Between What Is and What If: Kevin Willmott's CSA"
by Thomas Prasch
- "Constructing Authority in the Documentary: Film History in
Forgotten Silver(1995)"
by Kimberly Sultze
- "HBO's Real Sex documentary series: Are we ready for sex?"
by Laura Vazquez
Nature & The Environment
- "In the Belly of the Bear: Grizzly Man and the Problem of
Incorporation"
by Gina M. Granter
- "A Tale of Two Darwins: Competition and Cooperation in The
March of the Penguins and Grizzly Man"
by Lawrence S. Mastroni
- "Documenting Native Peoples and Nature: Lessons learned through
Cross-disciplinary Insights"
by Salma Monani
- "Cinematic Primitivism: Landscapes in Frances Hubbard and
Robert Flaherty's Documentaries"
by Hanna Musiol
- "Grizzly Man: Treadwell and Herzog"
by Liam O'Brien
- "Unbearably Human: Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man and the American
Character"
by Jason Pierce
War In Documentary & Fiction Films
- "The Curse of the Clap: 'Sexual Hygiene' the Navy Way"
by Kathleen A. Brown
- "Vietnam, The Ten Thousand Day War: Ten Thousand Days On"
by Chris Dixon
- "Images of Hitler: Representing the Third Reich between
imagination and documentation"
by Tobias Ebbrecht
- "Some Notes on San Pietro"
by Jeremy Murray-Brown
- "Frank Capra and Leni Riefenstahl: Politics, Propaganda and the
Personal"
by Ian Scott
- "JFK & The Bridge on the River Kwai: 'Credible' History?"
by Keith Wheelock
Miscellaneous
- "Widening the margins of inclusivity: Telling women's
stories 'from below'"
by Marion Gagnon
- "The Man Who Went Back There: Representation of historical
identities in the film 'The Art of Living'"
by Amir Har-Gil
- "'The Sunshine Boys of Smut'" Documenting Cinema's Sordid Side
in 'Mau Mau Sex Sex' (2001)"
by Cynthia J. Miller
- "The Bloody Enterprise of Anti-Poaching: Documenting the Ethno-
politics and Environmental Politics in China"
by Fei Shi
- "The Flow of Consumer Citizenship: The New Deal, Hollywood
Cinema and Pare Lorentz's The River (1938)"
by Anna Siomopoulos
- "'I Can See the Playground in Him': Hoop Dreams and Rodney
King"
by Travis Vogan
Video Recordings (60-90 mins each)
- Opening Program -Allen and Cynthia Salzman Mondell of Media
Projects. Two veteran documentarians discuss their work in
social and historical films.
- Plenary Session - Raymond Fielding on March of Time, the
newsreel series.
- Plenary Session - Betsy McLane with an overview of documentary
history.
- Strong Enough To Break - with Hanson. This musical group's
film and its music.
- Plenary Session - D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus. Two film
giants and their work direct cinema, to include the classic
Primary and the more recent efforts such as The War Room.
Film & History 36.2 Editor's Reflections and Reports
by Peter C. Rollins ([log in to unmask])
New Editorial Address for Film & History at the U of Wisconsin, Oskosh,
where it is located within The Center for the Study of Film and History.
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory
Loren PQ Baybrook [log in to unmask]
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