{"product_id":"kill-the-documentary-a-letter-to-filmmakers-students-and-scholars-paperback","title":"Kill the Documentary: A Letter to Filmmakers, Students, and Scholars - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJill Godmilow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan the documentary be useful? Can a film change how its viewers think about the world and their potential role in it? In \u003ci\u003eKill the Documentary\u003c\/i\u003e, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. She critiques documentary films from \u003ci\u003eNanook of the North\u003c\/i\u003e to the recent Ken Burns\/Lynn Novick series \u003ci\u003eThe Vietnam War\u003c\/i\u003e. Tethered to what Godmilow calls the \"pedigree of the real\" and the \"pornography of the real,\" they fail to activate their viewers' engagement with historical or present-day problems. Whether depicting the hardships of poverty or the horrors of war, conventional documentaries produce an \"us-watching-them\" mode that ultimately reinforces self-satisfaction and self-absorption. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn place of the conventional documentary, Godmilow advocates for a \"postrealist\" cinema. Instead of offering the faux empathy and sentimental spectacle of mainstream documentaries, postrealist nonfiction films are acts of resistance. They are experimental, interventionist, performative, and transformative. Godmilow demonstrates how a film can produce meaningful, useful experience by forcefully challenging ways of knowing and how viewers come to understand the world. She considers her own career as a filmmaker as well as the formal and political strategies of artists such as Luis Buñuel, Georges Franju, Harun Farocki, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Rithy Panh, and other directors. Both manifesto and guidebook, \u003ci\u003eKill the Documentary\u003c\/i\u003e proposes provocative new ways of making and watching films.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJill Godmilow is professor emerita in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. Her acclaimed films include the Academy Award-nominated \u003ci\u003eAntonia: A Portrait of The Woman\u003c\/i\u003e (1974); \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), which won best feature film at the Sundance Film Festival; and \u003ci\u003eWhat Farocki Taught\u003c\/i\u003e, which was featured at the 2000 Whitney Biennial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42099534594183,"sku":"9780231202770","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/b81277a100e686d3383dae7c37610257.webp?v=1732374915","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/kill-the-documentary-a-letter-to-filmmakers-students-and-scholars-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}