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 filmsIncludes nearly 30 original essays by top documentary film scholars and makers, with each thematic grouping of essays sub–edited by major figures in the fieldExplores 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 surveillanceConsiders a wide diversity of documentary films that fall outside typical canons, including international and avant–garde documentaries presented in a variety of media INDICE: Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Alexandra Juhasz and Alisa Lebow.Part I: PLANETIntroduction: Theme Editor: Juan Francisco Salazar (University of Western Sydney)Chapter 1: Imre Szeman (University of Alberta) Crude Aesthetics: The Politics of Oil Documentaries Chapter 2: Juan Francisco Salazar Anticipatory modes of futuring planetary change in documentary film Chapter 3: Janet Walker (UC, Santa Barbara) Moving to Higher Ground? Documentary Film and Other Geolocative Technologies for Projecting Sea Level Rise .Part II: MIGRATIONIntroduction: Theme Editor: Aniko Imre (University of Southern California)Chapter 4: Ursula Biemann (Institute for Theory of Art and Design, HGK, Zurich) Videogeographies Chapter 5: Leshu Torchin (University of St. Andrews) Rates of Exchange: Human Trafficking and the Global Marketplace Chapter 6: Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam) Documenting What? Auto–Theory and Migratory Aesthetics .Part III: WORKIntroduction: Theme Editor: Silke Panse (University for the Creative Arts)Chapter 7: Silke Panse (University for the Creative Arts) The Work of the Documentary Protagonist: The Material Labor of Aesthetics Chapter 8: Ewa Hanna Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire) Old School Capitalism in Post–Socialism: The Struggles of elimir ilnik s Workers Chapter 9: Ana Ward (Swarthmore College) Capturing the Labors of Sex Work: The Pedagogical Role of Documentary Film .Part IV: SEXIntroduction: Theme Editor: Laura Kang (UC, Irvine)Chapter 10: Patricia White (Swarthmore College) Documentary Practice and Transnational Feminist Theory: The Visibility of FGC Chapter 11: Rosa–Linda Fregoso (UC Santa Cruz) Transforming Terror: Documentary Poetics in Lourdes Portillo s Señorita Extraviada (2001) Chapter 12: Eve Oishi (Claremont Graduate University) Reading Realness: Paris is Burning, Wildness, and Queer and Transgender Documentary Practice .Part V: VIRUSIntroduction: Theme Editor: Bishnupriya Ghosh (UC, Santa Barbara)Chapter 13: Kirsten Ostherr (Rice University) Animating Medical Informatics Chapter 14: Rebecca Hodes (University of Cape Town) HIV on documentary television in post–apartheid South Africa Chapter 15: Alexandra Juhasz (Pitzer College) Digital AIDS Documentary: Webs, Rooms, Viruses and Quilts .Part VI: RELIGIONIntroduction: Theme Editor: Alisa Lebow (University of Sussex) and Alexandra Juhasz (Pitzer College)Chapter 16: Angelica Fenner (University of Toronto) Rising in the East, Sett(l)ing in the West: The Emergence of Buddhism as Contemporary Documentary Subject Chapter 17: Raya Morag (Hebrew University) The New Religious Wave in Israeli Documentary Cinema: Negotiating Jewish Fundamentalism during the Second Intifada Chapter 18: Dean Wilson (Independent Scholar) Tran Van?s Thuy s Story of Kindness: Spirituality and Political Discourse .Part VII: WARIntroduction: Theme Editor: Jeffrey Skoller (UC, Berkeley)Chapter 19: Jane M Gaines (Columbia University) Second Thoughts on The Production of Outrage: The Iraq War and the Radical Documentary Tradition ???Chapter 20: Nora M. Alter (Temple University) One, Two, Three Montages .Harun Farocki s War Documentaries Chapter 21: Alisa Lebow (University of Sussex) The Unwar Film .Part VIII: TORTUREIntroduction: Theme Editor: Alisa Lebow (University of Sussex)Chapter 22: Susana de Sousa Dias (Filmmaker, Lisbon) (In)visible Evidence: The Representability of Torture Chapter 23: Deirdre Boyle (New School for Social Research) Interrogating Masters of the Cambodian Genocide Chapter 24: Macarena Gomez–Barris (USC) The Female Perpetrator: La Flaca Alejandra and Operation Atropos Chapter 25: Anjali Nath (USC) Towards the Dark Side: Seeing Detainee Bodies in Documentary Film .Part IX: SURVEILLANCEIntroduction: Theme Editor: Elizabeth Cowie (University of Kent)Chapter 26: Sharon Lin Tay (Middlesex University) Architectures of Control and Points of Resistance: Surveillance Culture and Digital Chapter 27: Elizabeth Cowie (University of Kent) The World Viewed: Documentary Observing and the Culture of Surveillance Chapter 28: Brian Winston (University of Lincoln) Surveillance in the Service of Narrative Chapter 29: Patrik Sjöberg (Karlstad University) Face Blind: Documentary Media and Subversion of Surveillance
- ISBN: 978-0-470-67164-1
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 688
- Fecha Publicación: 29/01/2015
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