Post-1990 documentary : reconfiguring independence / edited by Camille Deprez and Judith Pernin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deprez, Camille, 1977- editor.

Pernin, Judith, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

viii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"In a post-1990 context of unrivalled creativity in documentary filmmaking, what does 'independence' really mean? With a broad selection of contributors, this is the first collection of in-depth case studies to cut across different media, formats, subject matters, purposes and national divides. Writing from a wide range of academic perspectives, contributors shed new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues concerning independent documentary, to better comprehend the radical transformations of the form over the past twenty-five years. While the digital turn has been widely acknowledged as decisive in reshaping film practices, especially independent ones, this anthology aims at assessing its consequences without overestimating the impact of technology on other political, economic, social and cultural changes. Continuities as well as breaks are therefore put in perspective, with a particular focus on the interactions between these new practices and the established film and television industries."--Back cover.

Contents:

Part I History and Spaces of Resistance

1 Post-unification (East) German Documentary and the Contradictions of Identity / Barton Byg Byg, Barton 23

2 No Going Back: Continuity and Change in Australian Documentary / Deane Williams Williams, Deane, John Hughes Hughes, John 38

3 A Space in Between: The Legacy of the Activist Documentary Film in India / Camille Deprez Deprez, Camille 52

4 Languages, Speech and Voice: The Heritage of Jean Rouch and Pier Paolo Pasolini in Convention: Black Wall / White Holes / Eric Galmard Galmard, Eric 68

5 Chris Marker: Interactive Screen and Memory / Kristian Feigelson Feigelson, Kristian 82

Part II The Personal Experience

6 The Survivor-Perpetrator Encounter and the Truth Archive in Rithy Panh's Documentaries / Raya Morag Morag, Raya 97

7 Contesting Consensual Memory: The Work of Remembering in Chilean Autobiographical Documentaries / Juliette Goursat Goursat, Juliette 112

8 'We All Invented Our Own Algeria': Habiba Djahnine's Letter to My Sister as Memory-Narrative / Sheila Petty Petty, Sheila 125

9 From the Ashes: The Fall of Apartheid and the Rise of the Tone Documentary Filmmaker in South Africa / Liani Maasdorp Maasdorp, Liani 138

10 A Personal Vision of the Hong Kong Cityscape in Anson Mak's Essayistic Documentary Films One Way Street on a Turntable and On the Edge of a Floating City, We Sing / Mike Ingham Ingham, Mike 151

Part III Displacement, Participation and Spectatorship

11 Documentary Filmmakers on the Circuit: A Festival Career from Czech Dream to Czech Peace / Aida Vallejo Vallejo, Aida 171

12 Material Traces of Lebanon: A Documentary Aesthetics of Feeling in the Art Gallery / Tess Takahashi Takahashi, Tess 188

13 Autonomous Navigation? Multiplicity and Self-reflexive Aesthetics in Sergio Basso's Documentary Film Gkillo a Milam and Web Documentary Made in Chinatown / Hilary Chung Chung, Hilary, Bernadette Luciano Luciano, Bernadette 203

14 Fukushima and the Shifting Conventions of Documentary: From Broadcast to Social Media Netizenship / Mick Broderick Broderick, Mick, Robert Jacobs Jacobs, Robert 217

15 Independent Documentaries and Online Uses in China: From Cinephilia to Activism / Judith Pernin Pernin, Judith 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

9780748694136

0748694137

OCLC:

900446171