A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Juhasz, Alexandra; Lebow, Alisa

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film presents a collection of original essays that explore major issues surrounding the state of current documentary films and their capacity to inspire and effect change. * Presents a comprehensive collection of essays relating to all aspects of contemporary documentary films * Includes nearly 30 original essays by top documentary film scholars and makers, with each thematic grouping of essays sub-edited by major figures in the field * Explores a variety of themes central to contemporary documentary filmmakers and the study of documentary film - the planet, migration, work, sex, virus, religion, war, torture, and surveillance * Considers a wide diversity of documentary films that fall outside typical canons, including international and avant-garde documentaries presented in a variety of media

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118884447
• Artikelnr.: 42510509

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Juhasz is Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College. She is the author of AIDS TV (1995), Women of Vision (2001), F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing, co-edited with Jesse Lerner (2005), and Learning from YouTube (2011). Dr. Juhasz is also the producer of the fake documentary feature films The Watermelon Woman (1997) and The Owls (2010), as well as many "real" documentaries. Alisa Lebow is a Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. Her publications include First Person Jewish (2008) and The Cinema of Me (2012) and numerous articles on aspects of documentary ranging from art and documentary to questions of "the political" in documentary. Lebow has also made several documentaries including Outlaw (1994), Treyf (1998), and For the Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: A World Encountered 1 Alexandra
Juhasz and Alisa Lebow Part I Planet 19 Juan Francisco Salazar Introduction
21 Juan Francisco Salazar 1 Crude Aesthetics: The Politics of Oil
Documentaries 28 Imre Szeman 2 Anticipatory Modes of Futuring Planetary
Change in Documentary Film 43 Juan Francisco Salazar 3 Projecting Sea Level
Rise: Documentary Film and Other Geolocative Technologies 61 Janet Walker
Part II Migration 87 Anikó Imre Introduction 89 Anikó Imre 4
Videogeographies 92 Ursula Biemann 5 Rates of Exchange: Human Trafficking
and the Global Marketplace 108 Leshu Torchin 6 Documenting What?
Auto-Theory and Migratory Aesthetics 124 Mieke Bal Part III Work 145 Silke
Panse Introduction 147 Silke Panse 7 The Work of the Documentary
Protagonist: The Material Labor of Aesthetics 155 Silke Panse 8 Old School
Capitalism in Post-Socialism: The Struggles of ?elimir ?ilnik's Workers 176
Ewa Mazierska 9 Capturing the Labors of Sex Work: The Pedagogical Role of
Documentary Film 191 Anna E. Ward Part IV Sex 209 Laura Hyun Yi Kang
Introduction 211 Laura Hyun Yi Kang 10 Documentary Practice and
Transnational Feminist Theory: The Visibility of FGC 217 Patricia White 11
Transforming Terror: Documentary Poetics in Lourdes Portillo's Señorita
Extraviada (2001) 233 Rosa-Linda Fregoso 12 Reading Realness: Paris Is
Burning, Wildness, and Queer and Transgender Documentary Practice 252 Eve
Oishi Part V Virus 271 Bishnupriya Ghosh Introduction 273 Bishnupriya Ghosh
13 Animating Informatics: Scientific Discovery Through Documentary Film 280
Kirsten Ostherr 14 HIV on Documentary Television in Post-Apartheid South
Africa 298 Rebecca Hodes 15 Digital AIDS Documentary: Webs, Rooms, Viruses,
and Quilts 314 Alexandra Juhasz Part VI Religion 335 Alexandra Juhasz and
Alisa Lebow Introduction 337 Alexandra Juhasz and Alisa Lebow 16 Rising in
the East, Sett(l)ing in the West: The Emergence of Buddhism as Contemporary
Documentary Subject 341 Angelica Fenner 17 The New Religious Wave in
Israeli Documentary Cinema: Negotiating Jewish Fundamentalism During the
Second Intifada 366 Raya Morag 18 Tran Van Thuy's Story of Kindness:
Spirituality and Political Discourse 384 Dean Wilson Part VII War 401
Jeffrey Skoller Introduction 403 Jeffrey Skoller 19 Second Thoughts on "The
Production of Outrage: The Iraq War and the Radical Documentary Tradition"
410 Jane M. Gaines 20 One, Two, Three Montages ... Harun Farocki's War
Documentaries 431 Nora M. Alter 21 The Unwar Film 454 Alisa Lebow Part VIII
Torture 475 Alisa Lebow Introduction 477 Alisa Lebow 22 (In)visible
Evidence: The Representability of Torture 482 Susana de Sousa Dias 23
Interviewing the Devil: Interrogating Masters of the Cambodian Genocide 506
Deirdre Boyle 24 The Female Perpetrator: La Flaca Alejandra and Operation
Atropos 524 Macarena Gómez-Barris 25 Toward the Dark Side: Seeing Detainee
Bodies in Documentary Film 536 Anjali Nath Part IX Surveillance 557
Elizabeth Cowie Introduction 559 Elizabeth Cowie 26 Architectures of
Control and Points of Resistance: Surveillance Culture and Digital
Documentaries 566 Sharon Lin Tay 27 The World Viewed: Documentary Observing
and the Culture of Surveillance 580 Elizabeth Cowie 28 Surveillance in the
Service of Narrative 611 Brian Winston 29 Face Blind: Documentary Media and
Subversion of Surveillance 629 Patrik Sjöberg Index 647

Rezensionen

"This collection is the very best of companions to have ona journey through contemporary documentary film. Edited by two ofthe smartest thinkers/practitioners around, and with an equallylively cast of authors, this book is required reading."

Faye Ginsburg, New York University