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Documentary testimonies : global archives of suffering / edited by Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- 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:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Documentary Testimonies examines documentary films that compel us to bear witness, move us to anger or tears, and possibly mobilize us to action.Comprising ten new essays and a substantive introduction, this interdisciplinary volume examines audiovisual testimonial practices, forms, and institutions. Topics include: technologies of capture, storage and circulation; problems of historical veracity/frail memory; generation of video archives--official, renegade, and ephemeral; limits and potentialities of documentary as public record; architectonics of memory; ethics of witness
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; contents; illustrations; acknowledgments; introduction: moving testimonies; one embodied memory: the institutional mediation of survivor testimony in the united states holocaust memorial museum; two "we shall drown, but we shall not move": the ecologics of testimony in nba documentaries; three rights and return: perils and fantasies of situated testimony after katrina; four from "super babies" and "nazi bastards" to victims finding a voice: the memory trajectory of the norwegian lebensborn children
- five reclamation of voice: the joint authorship of testimony in the murmuring trilogysix trauma, memory, documentary: re-enactment in two films by rithy panh (cambodia) and garin nugroho (indonesia); seven on documentary and testimony: the revisionists' history, the politics of truth, and the remembrance of the massacre at acteal, chiapas; eight mediating testimony: broadcasting south africa's truth and reconciliation commission; nine mediating genocide: producing digital survivor testimony in rwanda
- ten between orbit and the ground: conflict monitoring, google earth and the "crisis in darfur" projectcontributors; index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-84267-1
- 1-135-84268-X
- 1-282-44341-0
- 9786612443411
- 0-203-88341-1
- 9780203883419
- OCLC:
- 501842881
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