Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-237) and index
Introduction / William Rothman -- Part 1. Errol Morris: or The Fog of Film -- Errol Morris's irony / Gilberto Perez -- Errol Morris's forms of control / Ira Jaffe -- The philosophy of Errol Morris: ten lessons / Carl Plantinga -- Part 2. Ross McElwee: I Film Therefore I Am -- Coincidence in Ross McElwee's documentaries / Diane Stevenson -- Reflections on bright leaves / Marian Keane -- Drifting in time: Ross McElwee's time indefinite / Jim Lane -- Surprise and pain, writing and film / Charles Warren -- Sometimes daddies don't talk about things like that / William Rothman -- Part 3. Jean Rouch: or The Filmmaker as Provocateur -- Jean Rouch and the power of the between / Paul Stoller -- The pause of the world / Daniel Morgan -- Jean Rouch's les maîtres fous: documentary of seduction, seduction of documentary / Alan Cholodenko -- Petit à petit and the lion hunters / Michael Laramee -- Jean Rouch as film artist: Tourou and Bitti, The Old Anaï, Ambara Dama / William Rothman