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For Documentary: Twelve Essays

by Dai Vaughan
For Documentary: Twelve Essays

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These essays, which span twenty-five years of writing and a lifetime of experience, offer fresh and challenging insights into documentary. Dai Vaughan, one of the most highly regarded documentary editors to have worked in Britain in recent decades, makes his starting point plain: "Most of us would feel that the word 'documentary' had not justified its place in the dictionary if the films so called did not manifest some relationship with the world not shared by others." That elusive relationship is the subject of his eloquent reflections and analyses.

As critic, Vaughan contrasts the Olympic Games films of Riefenstahl (1936) and Ichikawa (1964); as participant, he tells how the introduction of portable 16mm equipment gave rise to cinéma vérité and observational visual anthropology. The twin perspective of analyst and practitioner results in a radical restatement of the documentary project, one in which documentary is seen as engaging the viewer's freedom in a way that fiction does not. A chapter near the end, "From Today, Cinema Is Dead," is uncompromising in its pessimistic view that digitalization threatens the privileged relationship we have always granted between a photograph and its object. Film theorists and filmmakers, indeed everyone who cares about how our society represents itself to itself, will find For Documentary engrossing as well as illuminating.

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"Fiercely intelligent and stimulating." Times Higher Education Supplement

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"A jewel of a book that is unlike any other in the field of documentary studies. It will bring to a far broader audience a rigorous critical intelligence and sensibility, seasoned by years of experience, imbued with a bracing clarity of thought and expression." Michael Renov, University of Southern California

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"Vaughan's ruminations on the relationship between documentary, language, and the world, as well as on the implications--at once ethical and epistemological--of the digital revolution, are invariably original and enlightening. I know of no precedent for the manner in which he combines philosophic precision with grounding in actual filmmaking practice. Vaughan is the most singular--and discomfitting--voice that we have had in documentary studies for a long, long time." Lucien Taylor, coauthor of Cross-Cultural Filmmaking

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"A jewel of a book that is unlike any other in the field of documentary studies. It will bring to a far broader audience a rigorous critical intelligence and sensibility, seasoned by years of experience, imbued with a bracing clarity of thought and expression."—Michael Renov, University of Southern California

"Vaughan's ruminations on the relationship between documentary, language, and the world, as well as on the implications—at once ethical and epistemological—of the digital revolution, are invariably original and enlightening. I know of no precedent for the manner in which he combines philosophic precision with grounding in actual filmmaking practice. Vaughan is the most singular—and discomfitting—voice that we have had in documentary studies for a long, long time."—Lucien Taylor, coauthor of Cross-Cultural Filmmaking


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Dai Vaughan, who resides in London, has been an editor of documentary films for more than thirty-five years. His previous books include novels and a biography.

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ISBN:
9780520216952
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
09/15/1999
Publisher:
University of California Press
Language:
English
Pages:
234
Height:
.68IN
Width:
5.51IN
LCCN:
99013376
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1999
UPC Code:
2800520216954
Author:
Dai Vaughan
Subject:
Film and Television-History and Criticism
Subject:
Documentary films -- History and criticism.
Subject:
Documentary films
Subject:
History and criticism

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