Notes on the politics and rhetoric of documentary --
Tom Benson and Brian Snee
Saturday, April 11, 2009
An Unlikely Weapon -- Eddie Adams
An Unlikely Weapon is a documentary film about the work of photographer Eddie Adams, who took this famous photograph of the execution of a Viet Cong prisoner in Vietnam. Background feature story also at State of the Art, on whose site the picture above appears.
Comments and discussion are welcome, but will be moderated for relevance and civility.
Reality Fictions
Thomas W. Benson and Carolyn Anderson, Reality Fictions: The Films of Frederick Wiseman, 2nd ed. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002)
Documentary Dilemmas
Carolyn Anderson and Thomas W. Benson, Documentary Dilemmas: Frederick Wiseman's "Titicut Follies" (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991)
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