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Vérité, ecstatic truth, and history: the documentary styles of David & Albert Maysles, Werner Herzog, and Ken Burns

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Title	Vérité, ecstatic truth, and history: the documentary styles of David & Albert Maysles, Werner Herzog, and Ken Burns
Author	Buckley, Dana Maris
Author email	dbuckley45@gmail.com; dmbuckle@usc.edu
Degree	Master of Arts
Document type	Thesis
Degree program	Specialized Journalism (The Arts)
School	Annenberg School for Communication
Date defended/completed	2010-08-01
Date submitted	2010
Restricted until	Unrestricted
Date published	2010-08-05
Advisor (committee chair)	Birman, Daniel H.
Advisor (committee member)	Page, Tim Renov, Michael
Abstract	This paper examines the idea of reality and truth in documentary filmmaking by looking at three diverse styles and ideologies. In discussing David and Albert Maysles’ use of cinema vérité techniques in the direct cinema movement, Werner Herzog’s search for an “ecstatic truth” through fabrication and artifice, and Ken Burn’s representations of the past through contemporary means, it becomes clear that there are multiple definitions of truth and reality within the documentary community.
Keyword	documentary; film; Herzog; Maysles; Burns; Ken Burns; vérité; truth; reality
Language	English
Part of collection	University of Southern California dissertations and theses
Publisher (of the original version)	University of Southern California
Place of publication (of the original version)	Los Angeles, California
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Provenance	Electronically uploaded by the author
Type	texts
Legacy record ID	usctheses-m3285
Rights	Buckley, Dana Maris
Repository name	Libraries, University of Southern California
Repository address	Los Angeles, California
Repository email	http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/
Filename	etd-Buckley-3534
Archival file	uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Buckley-3534.pdf

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Full text	VÉRITÉ, ECSTATIC TRUTH, AND HISTORY: THE DOCUMENTARY STYLES OF DAVID & ALBERT MAYSLES, WERNER HERZOG, AND KEN BURNS by Dana Maris Buckley A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (SPECIALIZED JOURNALISM, THE ARTS) August 2010 Copyright 2010 Dana Maris Buckley

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