DocuMemory Bibliography

Daniel Potter


A. Documentary Film

100 Années Lumière. Retrospéctive de l'oeuvre documentaire des grands cinéastes français de Louis Lumière jusqu'à nos jours. Paris: Ministère des affaires étrangères, 1991.

Barnouw, Eric. Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film. London: Oxford, 1974.

Barsam, Richard Meran. Nonfiction Film: A Critical History. New York: Dutton, 1973.

Burton, Juliane, ed. The Social Documentary in Latin America. Pittsburg: Univ. of Pittsburg Press, 1990.

Guynn, William. A Cinema of Nonfiction. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press / London: Associated Univ. Presses, 1990.

Lovell, Alan and Jim Hillier. Studies in Documentary. New York: Viking, 1972.

Mamber, Steven. Cinema Verite in America.: Studies in Uncontrolled Documentary. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1974.

Renov, Michael, ed. Theorizing Documentary. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Rosenthal, Alan. New Challenges for Documentary. Berkeley: Univ. of California, 1988.

Roth, Wilhelm. Der Dokumentarfilm seit 1960. München: Bucher, 1982.

Trinh, T. Minh-ha. "Documentary Is/Not a Name." October 52 (Spring 1990), 76-98.

Vertov, Dziga. Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov. Ed. Annette Michelson. Trans. Kevin O'Brien. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1984.

Winston, Brian. Claiming the Real: The Documentary Film Revisited. London: BFI, 1995.

Zagaglia, Paolo et al, eds. Cinéma et réalité. Bruxelles: Vie Ouvrière / Centre de l'audio-visuel, 1982.



B. Ethnographic Film / Visual Anthropology

Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature and Art. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1988.

Crawford, Peter, ed. Film as Ethnography. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 1992.

Heider, Karl G. Ethnographic Film. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976.

Hockings, Paul, ed. Principles of Visual Anthropology. 2nd ed. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995.

Loizos, Peter. Innovation in ethnographic film: From innocence to self-consciousness, 1955-1985. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1993.

Stoller, Paul. The Cinematic Griot: The Ethnography of Jean Rouch. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1992.

Taylor, Lucien, ed. Visualizing Theory: Selected Essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Trinh T., Minh-ha. When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics. New York: Routledge, 1991.



C. Archives and Archival Film

Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Trans. Lydia G. Cochrane. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1994.

Delage, Christian, ed. Ecrits, images et sons dans la Bibliothèque de France. Paris: IMEC / Bibliothèque de France, 1991.

Houston, Penelope. Keepers of the Frame: The Film Archives. London: BFI, 1994.

Leyda, Jay. Films Beget Films: A Study of the Compilation Film. New York: Hill and Wang, 1964.

Representations 42 (Spring 1993) "Future Libraries."

Roud, Richard. A Passion for Films: Henri Langlois and the Cinématèque Française. New York: Viking Press, 1983.



D. Video and Self-Portrait Media

Beaujour, Michel. Miroirs d'encre: Rhétorique de l'autoportrait. Paris: Seuil, 1980. [Poetics of the Literary Self-Portrait. Trans. Yara Milos. New York: NYU Press, 1991].

Bellour, Raymond. L'Entre-Images. Photo. Cinéma. Vidéo. Paris: La Différence, 1990.

_______, ed. Eye for I: Video Self-Portraits, A Traveling Exhibition. New York: Independent Curators Inc. [ICI], 1989.

Hall, Doug and Sally Jo Fifer. Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art. New York: Aperture/BAVC, 1990.

Renov, Michael and Erika Suderburg, eds. Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1996.



E. Rhetoric and the Art of Memory

Barilli, Renato. Rhetoric. Trans. Giuliana Menozzi. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1989.

Beaujour, Michel. Miroirs d'encre: Rhétorique de l'autoportrait. Paris: Seuil, 1980. [Poetics of the Literary Self-Portrait. Trans. Yara Milos. New York: NYU Press, 1991].

Bonner, Anthony, ed. Doctor Illuminatus: A Ramon Llull Reader. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993.

Bruno, Giordano. On the Composition of Images, Signs & Ideas. Trans. Charles Doria. Ed. Dick Higgins. New York: Willis, Locker & Owens, 1991.

Conley, Thomas M. Rhetoric in the European Tradition. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990.

Ong, Walter J. Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1958.

_______. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Routledge, 1982.

Yates, Francis. The Art of Memory. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1966.



F. Genre Evolution

Bensmaïa, Reda. The Barthes Effect: The Essay as Reflective Text.

Trans. Pat Fedkiew. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1987.

Deleuze, Gilles. "The Powers of the False." Cinema 2: The Time-Image. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1989, 126-155.

Marker, Chris. Commentaires 1. Paris: Seuil, 1961.

_______. Commentaires 2. Paris: Seuil, 1967.

Renov, Michael. "Lost, Lost, Lost: Mekas as Essayist." To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1992, 215-239.

Silverman, Kaja. The Threshold of the Visible World. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Blüminger, Christa and Constantin Wulff, ed. Schreiben Bilder Sprechen: Text zum essayistischen Film. Vienna: Sonderzahl, 1992.

Lanham, Richard A. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1993.

Ulmer, Gregory. Teletheory: Grammatology in the Age of Video. New York: Routledge, 1989.

Hattendorf, Manfred. Closeup: Dokumentarfilm und Authentizität: Ästhetik und Pragmatik einer Gattung. Konstanz: Haus des Dokumentarfilms, 1994.