Images of Unrest: Documentary Film and Political Violence / Nikolaj Lubecker, Daniele Rugo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lübecker, Nikolaj, Author.

Rugo, Daniele, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Formulates a new understanding of political violence by approaching documentary images as original experiences A theoretical contribution to current debates about the significance, power and ethical implications of documentary film imagesDetailed analyses of the work of several key contemporary documentary filmmakers (Hara, Panh, Rosi, Farocki, Schroeder, Loznitsa) as well as directors deserving wider attention (Weber, Perelmuter, Ingold, Andoni)The conceptualization of a nonrepresentational approach to documentary film, which aims to recast debates about the documentary film spectatorAn original take on the relation between documentary film and political violenceThis book studies the relation between documentary film and political violence, treating images not as representations, but as original experiences that are a part of a reality that they both present and shape. Whereas documentary film scholarship has often been preoccupied with questions of the referentiality and representation, Images of Unrest: Documentary Film and Political Violence prioritises the question of what images do. The volume argues that this approach, far from being an abnegation of our responsibility towards the real, heightens the ethical stakes of documentary filmmaking and filmviewing, reminding us that we are always in and of the real.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Nonrepresentational Documentary

1. What We Observe Is Not Reality Itself: Post-Verite and Action Documentaries

2. The Poetics of Found-Footage Filmmaking

3. Landscape Forensics: Sensing Violence in Empty Places

4. Missing Pictures: Reenactment, Trauma and Creation

5. Recoding Operational Images

Conclusion: Finding Beauty Amid Disaster

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed April 28 2026)

ISBN:

1-3995-5713-0

9781399557139