Author : David Resha
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819575356
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Book Synopsis The Cinema of Errol Morris by : David Resha
Download or read book The Cinema of Errol Morris written by David Resha and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cinema of Errol Morris offers close analyses of the director’s films—from box office successes like The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War to Morris’s early works like Vernon, Florida and controversial films like Standard Operating Procedure. Film scholar David Resha’s reappraisal of Morris’s films allows us to rethink the traditional distinction between stylistically conservative documentaries, which are closely invested in evidence and reality, and stylistically adventurous films, which artfully call to question such claims of nonfiction and truth. According to Resha, Errol Morris does not fit neatly in this division of the documentary tradition. Rather, his experiments with documentary conventions constitute another way to investigate reality—in particular, to examine the ways in which his subjects understand, and misunderstand, themselves and the world around them. Seen within the nonfiction tradition, an Errol Morris documentary is a flexible form of lively, engaging storytelling and shrewd, cutting, in-depth reportage.