Documentary testimonies : global archives of suffering / edited by Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarkar, B. (Bhaskar)

Walker, Janet, 1955-

Series:

AFI film readers

AFI film readers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--Production and direction.

Documentary films.

Documentary films--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction : moving testimonies / Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker

Embodied memory : the institutional mediation of survivor testimony in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Noah Shenker

"We shall drown, but we shall not move" : the ecologics of testimony in NBA documentaries / Bishnupriya Ghosh

Rights and return: perils and fantasies of situated testimony after Katrina / Janet Walker

From "superbabies" and "Nazi bastards" to victims finding a voice : the memory trajectory of the Norwegian lebensborn children / Bjørn Sørenssen

Reclamation of voice : the joint authorship of testimony in the murmuring trilogy / Hye Jean Chung

Trauma, memory, documentary : re-enactment in two films by Rithy Panh (Cambodia) and Garin Nugroho (Indonesia) / Deirdre Boyle

On documentary and testimony : the revisionists' history, the politics of truth, and the remembrance of the massacre at Acteal, Chiapas / José Rabasa

Mediating testimony : broadcasting South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Catherine M. Cole

Mediating genocide : producing digital survivor testimony in Rwanda / Mick Broderick

Between orbit and the ground : conflict monitoring, Google Earth and the "Crisis in Darfur" project / Lisa Parks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415996631

0415996635

9780415996648

0415996643

9780203883419

0203883411

OCLC:

237880702