A companion to contemporary documentary film / edited by Alexandra Juhasz and Alisa Lebow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Juhasz, Alexandra, editor.

Lebow, Alisa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (693 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: A World Encountered

Part I Planet (edited by Juan Francisco Salazar)

Part II Migration (edited by Anikó Imre)

Part III Work (edited by Silke Panse)

Part IV Sex (edited by Laura Hyun Yi Kang)

Part V Virus (edited by Bishnupriya Ghosh)

Part VI Religion (edited by Alisa Lebow and Alexandra Juhasz)

Part VII War (edited by Jeffrey Skoller)

Part VIII Torture (edited by Alisa Lebow)

Part IX Surveillance (edited by Elizabeth Cowie)

Body Sovereignty

The Encounter, or Ethics of Knowing (the Other)

Subverting Referentiality: Beyond Historicity

Mapping the Permeable Borders of Space and Time

New Cognitive Tools and Their New Political Aesthetics

Note

Reference

Part I Planet

Introduction: Planet

References

Chapter 1 Crude Aesthetics: The Politics of Oil Documentaries

Oil on Film: A Crude Awakening, Crude, and H2Oil

System Failure, Antinomy, Scale

The Politics of Documentary in an Era of Scarcity

Notes

Chapter 2 Anticipatory Modes of Futuring Planetary Change in Documentary Film

Introduction

Documentary Film, Speculative Realism, and the Shaping of Things to Come

An Epistephilia of the Future: Anticipatory Modes of Futuring in Three Contemporary Documentary Films: The Planet (2006), Into Eternity (2010), and Otilith (2003-2009)

Conclusion

Chapter 3 Projecting Sea Level Rise: Documentary Film and Other Geolocative Technologies

Land and Water

(Re)mapping "A Sea of Islands with Their Inhabitants"

Other Technologies of Navigation

Futurity Practices

Navigating the Future

Part II Migration

Introduction: Migration

Chapter 4 Videogeographies

Going to the Border

Post-Humanist Space.

Blind Spots and Withdrawals

Territories of Transit

Imaging Clandestinity

Evidence and Artifice

A Network Run by a Transnational Tribe

The Essayist Project

Chapter 5 Rates of Exchange: Human Trafficking and the Global Marketplace

The Other Europe

Mobilizing Confinements

Chapter 6 Documenting What? Auto-Theory and Migratory Aesthetics

What, and For What?

Migratory Aesthetics

Auto-Theory

Performing Contact Against All Odds

Part III Work

Introduction: Work

Chapter 7 The Work of the Documentary Protagonist: The Material Labor of Aesthetics

Central Perspective and Decentralized Labor

The Working Point

Leveling the Field

Picturesque and Impressionistic Documentary

Realism and the Visibility of Labor

Beyond Documentary Realism

Chapter 8 Old School Capitalism in Post-Socialism: The Struggles of Želimir Žilnik's Workers

Work in Eastern European Socialist Ideology, Everyday Experience, and Cinema

Work in Yugoslav Politics and Film

The Cinema of Želimir Žilnik

Old School Capitalism

Chapter 9 Capturing the Labors of Sex Work: The Pedagogical Role of Documentary Film

Working Hard for the Image

Collective Organizing in Live Nude Girls Unite!

Sex Work and Activism in Tales of the Night Fairies

The Laboring/Desiring Body in Scarlet Road

Affective Alliances

Part IV Sex

Introduction: Sex

Chapter 10 Documentary Practice and Transnational Feminist Theory: The Visibility of FGC

Women Make Movies

The Politics of FGC

FGC and Documentary Practice

References.

Chapter 11 Transforming Terror: Documentary Poetics in Lourdes Portillo's Señorita Extraviada (2001)

Possessed by the Subject Matter

The Art of Witness

Touching Visuality

The Ethics of Documentary Poetics

Chapter 12 Reading Realness: Paris Is Burning, Wildness, and Queer and Transgender Documentary Practice

Part V Virus

Introduction: Virus

Chapter 13 Animating Informatics: Scientific Discovery Through Documentary Film

The Cinematograph as Scientific Instrument

The Scientific Process of Social Persuasion

Microscopic Ways of Seeing

Molecular Animation

Chapter 14 HIV on Documentary Television in Post-Apartheid South Africa

HIV and the Democratic Transition

The Politics of HIV Treatment on Beat It!

Conclusions

Chapter 15 Digital AIDS Documentary: Webs, Rooms, Viruses, and Quilts

Video Remains

Unconstrained Webs

The Creative Treatment of Actuality

The Page and the Room

The Material

Visual Aids

Online AIDS Documentary

We Care

Video in the Archive

Camera Memories

AIDS Artery

We Were Here, Online

Ira Sachs's Online Last Address

The AIDS Web

The AIDS Quilt Touch Project

A Connection Crisis

The Cut/The Link/The Room: Elegy and Action

Mixing Reality

Accessibility Crisis

Emotional Behavior

Mourning Identification

Stitching AIDS Online

Conclusion: A Stitched Reality Experience

Part VI Religion

Introduction: Religion

Chapter 16 Rising in the East, Sett(l)ing in the West: The Emergence of Buddhism as Contemporary Documentary Subject

Buddhism and Documentary: Elective Affinities

Screening Lamaistic Buddhism in Tibet.

The Semiotics of Reincarnation

Tracking Tulku

East/West Family Romance

Non-Linear Temporalities

Chapter 17 The New Religious Wave in Israeli Documentary Cinema: Negotiating Jewish Fundamentalism During the Second Intifada

Gevald

Black Bus

The Rebellious Son

Conclusion: From Fundamentalism to Monoculturalism

Chapter 18 Tran Van Thuy's Story of Kindness: Spirituality and Political Discourse

State Documentary Tradition

An Intriguing Career

Production and Reception

Subjective and Collective Voices

Authorship and Political Discourse

Intertext and National Identity

Narrative Density and Spiritual Symbolism

Part VII War

Introduction: War

Chapter 19 Second Thoughts on "The Production of Outrage: The Iraq War and the Radical Documentary Tradition"

Conclusion: Second Thoughts

Chapter 20 One, Two, Three Montages … Harun Farocki's War Documentaries

Vietnam Inside Ourselves

Cold Wars - Cool Media

Hot War / Hot Gallery

Chapter 21 The Unwar Film

Paramilitarist War Docs and Genre

Interrupting Genre, Refusing Militarism: The Unwar Film

Part VIII Torture

Introduction: Torture

Chapter 22 (In)visible Evidence: The Representability of Torture

Torture's Re-emergence

The Voice of the Torturer

Leontius's Dilemma

Opening Up Time

Vertical Structure

Montage Within the Shot

The Question of Testimony: Traces of the Event

Colonial Memory

Final Notes

Chapter 23 Interviewing the Devil: Interrogating Masters of the Cambodian Genocide

Cinema and the Year Zero

Some Background to a Genocide

Patient or Complicit?

Performing Truth.

Audience with the Devil

Friends and Enemies

The Poisonous Tree

Final Thoughts

Author's Note

Chapter 24 The Female Perpetrator: La Flaca Alejandra and Operation Atropos

Performing Terror

Female Betrayal

Chapter 25 Toward the Dark Side: Seeing Detainee Bodies in Documentary Film

Popular Documentary and Social Protest

The Road to Guantanamo

Taxi to the Dark Side

Part IX: Surveillance

Introduction: Surveillance

Chapter 26 Architectures of Control and Points of Resistance: Surveillance Culture and Digital Documentaries

An Architecture of Control

Points of Resistance and Aesthetics of Network Culture

Chapter 27 The World Viewed: Documentary Observing and the Culture of Surveillance

Life as CCTV: Surveillance Culture

Re-seeing Surveillance: CCTV Artveillance

Documentary Surveillance

The Archive and Surveillance in Documentary

Chapter 28 Surveillance in the Service of Narrative

Video Forensics

The Question You Need to Answer: Can Video Evidence Be Trusted?

First Impressions Can Be Misleading

Research Footage → Record Footage → Documentary

Surveillance in the Service of Narrative

Afterword on The Bridge

Chapter 29 Face Blind: Documentary Media and Subversion of Surveillance

Strategies for Surveillance Resistance

The Anonymous Subject

Face Blindness

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

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