Claiming the Real

Preface I.- Preface to the 2nd edition.- PART I: THE CREATIVE TREATMENT OF ACTUALITY.-The Documentary and CGI.- The Documentary Film in 1914.- The Documentary as the Creative Treatment of Actuality.- PART II: CREATIVE: DOCUMENTARY AS ART.- Photography as Art.- The Documentarist as Explorer/Artist.- The Griersonian Artist.- Documentary Film and Realist Painting.- The Politics of Realism.- Running Away from Social Meaning.- Poor, Suffering Characters: Victims and Problem Moments.- Serious-Minded Chaps: Politics and Poetics.- He Never Used the Word Revolution.- To Command, and Cumulatively Command, the Mind of a Generation.- Running Away from Social Meaning in America.- Staatspolitisch Besonders Wertvoll.- To Win New Comrades for the Cause.- A Curious Comment.- PART III: TREATMENT: DOCUMENTARY AS DRAMA.- Life as Narrativised.- Chrono-Logic.- Non-Narrative: Works Better in the Head than on the Screen.- Sincere and Justifiable Reconstruction.- PART IV: ACTUALITY: DOCUMENTARY AS SCIENCE.- Photography as Science.- Science as Inscription.- Evidence in the Law.- Technologising the Documentary Agenda.- Documentary as Scientific Inscription: Film as Evidence.- Moments of Revelation.- This Objective-Subjective Stuff Is a Lot of Bullshit.- Kinopravda.- Film as Ethnography.- Film as Truth.- The Principles of Visual Anthropology.- Flies in the Soup: The Influence of Cinéma Vérité.- Flies on the Wall: The Influence of Direct Cinema.- PART V: THE POST-GRIERSONIAN DOCUMENTARY?.- The Naturalistic Illusion.- The Battlefields of Epistomology.- The Difference that Makes a Difference.- What Constraints?.- The Voluntary Consent of the Human Subject.- What Interests the Public.- The Nadir of Human Achievement.- The post-Griersonian Documentary: a tour d'horizon.- The post-Griersonian Documentary: The Farther Shore.- Do Not Be Afraid.....- Envoi.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.