2. Take Action— Make Useful Postrealist Films

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Manifestly Radical: A Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. I Call This Book a Letter xix
6. Introduction— a Letter to Filmmakers 1
7. 1. Abandon the Conventional Documentary— Reject Realism as the Only Authentic Nonfiction Form 7
8. 2. Take Action— Make Useful Postrealist Films 27
9. 3. Forty Postrealist Strategies to Learn from and Borrow 57
10. 4. The Toolkit 127
11. Notes 177
12. Bibliography 185
13. Index 191