Imagining Reality by MacDonald, Kevin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW EDITION PART 1 The Kingdom of Shadows

Introduction The Kingdom of Shadows by Maxim Gorky George Méliès and the Illusion of Reality 1896: Censorship of News Footage in Imperial Russia by Francis Doublier Boleslaw Matuszewski and the Documentary Idea Taking the Camera to War by Albert E. Smith

2 Going to Extremes

Introduction A Woman at War by Jessica Borthwicke In the Land of the Head Hunters by Edward S. Curtis Pancho Villa Fights for the Camera by Terry Ramsaye The Worst Location in the World: Herbert G. Ponting in the Antarctic by Dennis Lynch Genuine War Films by W. Stephen Bush and Captain F. E. Kleinschmidt Filming Death by Béla Balázs Lowell Thomas and ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ by Kevin Brownlow Robert Flaherty Talking Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life by Merian C. Cooper

3 Kino Eyes and Agit Trains

Introduction Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Camera Esther Shub and the Art of Compilation by Jay Leyda Agit Trains and Mobile Laboratories by Roman Karmen A Kinok Speaks: Mikhail Kaufman in Interview

4 Documentary and the Avant-Garde

Introduction Haxan/Witchcraft through the Ages by Tom Milne Ruttman’s Berlin The Failings of Berlin by Siegfried Kracauer Making Rain by Joris Ivens Jean Painlevé by Raymond Durgnat A Propos de Nice by Boris Kaufman Luis Buñuel Discusses Las Hurdes

PART 5 The British Movement

Introduction Grierson’s Background and the Origins of his Ideas First Principles of Documentary by John Grierson Song of Ceylon : An Interview with Basil Wright by Cecile Starr BBC: The Voice of Britain by Graham Greene The Role of Alberto Cavalcanti by Elizabeth Sussex Night Mail by Dai Vaughan Tackling Social Problems

6 Battling for Minds

Introduction News Films by Béla Balázs Leni Riefenstahl, Art and Propaganda by Manohla Dargis The Spanish Earth by Joris Ivens The Wandering Jew by Erwin Leiser John Huston at War by Scott Hammen Only Connect: Some Aspects of the Work of Humphrey Jennings by Lindsay Anderson

INTERLUDE 7 Aspects of Asia

Introduction Moments of Creation by Arun Khopar Worlds of Command by Tom Waugh A Foreigner’s View of the Japanese Documentary Scene by Scott Sinkler Iwasaki and the Occupied Screen by Erik Barnouw Conflict, Ogawa and Japanese Film-making by Andrée Tournès An Interview with Shohei Imamura by Toichi Nakata The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On by Jill Forbes

PART 8 The Essayists

Introduction O Dreamland by Gavin Lambert The Sunday Musicians by Krzysztof Kieślowski Nuit et Brouillard by Annette Insdorff Warhol’s Sleep by Jonas Mekas Orson Welles’s F for Fake by Richard Combs Marcel Ophüls by Ian Buruma Phantom India by Louis Malle Chris Marker and Sans Soleil by Terrence Rafferty

9 The Grain of Truth

Introduction Richard Leacock Remembers the Origins of ‘Direct Cinema’ Richard Leacock Interviewed by Mark Shivas The Maysles Brothers Interviewed by James Blue Jean Rouch Interviewed by G. Roy-Leven Jean Rouch Interviewed by James Blue Narration Can be a Killer by Robert Drew Gimme Shelter by Pauline Kael Editing as a Four-Way Conversation by Frederick Wiseman

PART 10 The Cinema of Social Concern

Introduction An Interview with Santiago Alvarez History is the Theme of All my Films: An Interview with Emile De Antonio Filming Torture Victims by Haskell Wexler Roger & Me by Roger Ebert Death of a Nation by Ken Loach On the Rebound: Hoop Dreams and its Discontents by Paul Arthur and Janet Cutler

11 Diversity

Introduction The Unique Role of Documentaries by Krzysztof Kieślowski Shoah: Witness to Annihilation by J. Hoberman The Being of Nothingness: An Interview with Claude Lanzmann Appearance and Reality: Gabriele Annan on Maximilian Schell’s Marlene The Thin Blue Line by Terrence Rafferty When Documentary is not Documentary by Lizzie Francke Nick Broomfield: The Fly in the Ointment by Allison Pearson Hearts of Darkness : A Film-maker’s Apocalypse by Roger Ebert The UP Documentaries by Roger Ebert The Rise of Camcorder Culture by Paul Barker Drawing it Out by Michael Eaton

12 Breakthrough

The Heavens Over Havana by Richard Falcon 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 Adam Curtis: ‘I’m a modern journalist’ by Hannah Eaves and Jonathan Marlow Paradocumentary in Iran by Mark Cousins Angles on Insects by Michael X. Ferraro Whatever Happened to the Social Documentary? By Steve Thomas

13 The Burning Question

Nick Broomfield Adam Curtis Peter Dole Molly Dineen Herz Frank Nicholas Fraser Clive Gordon Mike Grigsby Claude Lanzmann Richard Leacock Kim Longinotto Philippa Lowthorpe Chris Marker Albert Maysles Marcel Ophüls Pawel Pawlikowski D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus

APPENDIX A Response to Pauline Kael ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INDEX About the Editors Copyright

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