Introduction
William Rothman
Part 1. Errol Morris: The Fog of Film
1. Errol Morris’s Irony
Gilberto Perez
2. Errol Morris’s Forms of Control
Ira Jaffe
3. The Philosophy of Errol Morris: Ten Lessons
Carl Plantinga
Part 2. Ross McElwee: I Film Therefore I Am
4. Coincidence in Ross McElwee’s Documentaries
Diane Stevenson
5. Reflections on Bright Leaves
Marian Keane
6. Drifting in Time: Ross McElwee’s Time Indefinite
Jim Lane
7. Surprise and Pain, Writing and Film
Charles Warren
8. Sometimes Daddies Don’t Talk about Things like That
William Rothman
Part 3. Jean Rouch: The Filmmaker as Provocateur
9. Jean Rouch and the Power of the Between
Paul Stoller
10. The Pause of the World
Daniel Morgan
11. Jean Rouch’s Les maîtres fous: Documentary of
Seduction, Seduction of Documentary
Alan Cholodenko
12. Petit à Petit and The Lion Hunters
Michael Laramee
13. Jean Rouch as Film Artist: Tourou and Bitti,The Old Anaï, Ambara Dama
William Rothman
Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index