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Claiming the Real: The Griersonian Documentary and Its Legitimations, In Claiming the Real, Brian Winston rewrites the history of documentary film to take account of technological change. He subjects the great figures of the past—Grierson, Flaherty, Dziga-Vertov—to a searching critique, and examines both the pri, Claiming the Real: The Griersonian Documentary and Its Legitimations
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  • Claiming the Real: The Griersonian Documentary and Its Legitimations
  • Written by author Brian Winston
  • Published by BFI Publishing, 1995/04/01
  • In Claiming the Real, Brian Winston rewrites the history of documentary film to take account of technological change. He subjects the great figures of the past—Grierson, Flaherty, Dziga-Vertov—to a searching critique, and examines both the pri
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Preface 1
Pt. 1 The Creative Treatment of Actuality
1 The Documentary, Scitex and Harry 5
2 The Documentary Film in 1914 8
3 The Documentary as the Creative Treatment of Actuality 11
Pt. 2 Creative: Documentary as Art
4 Photography as Art 17
5 The Documentarist as Explorer/Artist 19
6 The Griersonian Artist 24
7 Documentary Film and Realist Painting 26
8 The Politics of Realism 30
9 Running Away from Social Meaning 35
10 Poor, Suffering Characters: Victims and Problem Moments 40
11 Serious-Minded Chaps: Politics and Poetics 48
12 He Never Used the Word Revolution 57
13 To Command, and Cumulatively Command, the Mind of a Generation 61
14 Running Away from Social Meaning in America 69
15 Staatspolitisch Besonders Wertvoll 74
16 To Win New Comrades for the Cause 79
17 A Curious Comment 93
Pt. 3 Treatment: Documentary as Drama
18 Life as Narrativised 99
19 Chrono-Logic 104
20 Non-Narrative: Works Better in the Head than on the Screen 113
21 Sincere and Justifiable Reconstruction 120
Pt. 4 Actuality: Documentary as Science
22 Photography as Science 127
23 Science as Inscription 130
24 Evidence in the Law 138
25 Technologising the Documentary Agenda 143
26 Documentary as Scientific Inscription: Film as Evidence 148
27 This Objective-Subjective Stuff Is a Lot of Bullshit 159
28 Kinopravda 164
29 Film as Ethnography 170
30 Film as Truth 181
31 The Principles of Visual Anthropology 189
32 Flies in the Soup: The Influence of Cinema Verite 197
33 Flies on the Wall: The Influence of Direct Cinema 205
34 What Constraints? 219
35 The Repressed in Documentary Film Studies 230
36 On the Battlefields of Epistemology 242
Pt. 5 Documentary in the Age of Digital Image Manipulation
37 Towards a Post-Griersonian Documentary 251
38 The Innocent Arrogance of Objective Fact 259
Envoi 261
Notes 263
Bibliography 277
Index 295


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