A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film

Author:   Alexandra Juhasz (Pitzer College, USA) ,  Alisa Lebow (University of Sussex, UK)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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9781119685661


Pages:   696
Publication Date:   01 June 2020
Format:   Paperback
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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

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Author:   Alexandra Juhasz (Pitzer College, USA) ,  Alisa Lebow (University of Sussex, UK)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   1.179kg
ISBN:  

9781119685661


ISBN 10:   1119685664
Pages:   696
Publication Date:   01 June 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: A World Encountered 1 Alexandra Juhasz and Alisa Lebow Part I Planet 19 Juan Francisco Salazar Introduction 21 Juan Francisco Salazar 1 Crude Aesthetics: The Politics of Oil Documentaries 28 Imre Szeman 2 Anticipatory Modes of Futuring Planetary Change in Documentary Film 43 Juan Francisco Salazar 3 Projecting Sea Level Rise: Documentary Film and Other Geolocative Technologies 61 Janet Walker Part II Migration 87 Anikó Imre Introduction 89 Anikó Imre 4 Videogeographies 92 Ursula Biemann 5 Rates of Exchange: Human Trafficking and the Global Marketplace 108 Leshu Torchin 6 Documenting What? Auto-Theory and Migratory Aesthetics 124 Mieke Bal Part III Work 145 Silke Panse Introduction 147 Silke Panse 7 The Work of the Documentary Protagonist: The Material Labor of Aesthetics 155 Silke Panse 8 Old School Capitalism in Post-Socialism: The Struggles of Želimir Žilnik’s Workers 176 Ewa Mazierska 9 Capturing the Labors of Sex Work: The Pedagogical Role of Documentary Film 191 Anna E. Ward Part IV Sex 209 Laura Hyun Yi Kang Introduction 211 Laura Hyun Yi Kang 10 Documentary Practice and Transnational Feminist Theory: The Visibility of FGC 217 Patricia White 11 Transforming Terror: Documentary Poetics in Lourdes Portillo’s Señorita Extraviada (2001) 233 Rosa-Linda Fregoso 12 Reading Realness: Paris Is Burning, Wildness, and Queer and Transgender Documentary Practice 252 Eve Oishi Part V Virus 271 Bishnupriya Ghosh Introduction 273 Bishnupriya Ghosh 13 Animating Informatics: Scientific Discovery Through Documentary Film 280 Kirsten Ostherr 14 HIV on Documentary Television in Post-Apartheid South Africa 298 Rebecca Hodes 15 Digital AIDS Documentary: Webs, Rooms, Viruses, and Quilts 314 Alexandra Juhasz Part VI Religion 335 Alexandra Juhasz and Alisa Lebow Introduction 337 Alexandra Juhasz and Alisa Lebow 16 Rising in the East, Sett(l)ing in the West: The Emergence of Buddhism as Contemporary Documentary Subject 341 Angelica Fenner 17 The New Religious Wave in Israeli Documentary Cinema: Negotiating Jewish Fundamentalism During the Second Intifada 366 Raya Morag 18 Tran Van Thuy’s Story of Kindness: Spirituality and Political Discourse 384 Dean Wilson Part VII War 401 Jeffrey Skoller Introduction 403 Jeffrey Skoller 19 Second Thoughts on “The Production of Outrage: The Iraq War and the Radical Documentary Tradition” 410 Jane M. Gaines 20 One, Two, Three Montages … Harun Farocki’s War Documentaries 431 Nora M. Alter 21 The Unwar Film 454 Alisa Lebow Part VIII Torture 475 Alisa Lebow Introduction 477 Alisa Lebow 22 (In)visible Evidence: The Representability of Torture 482 Susana de Sousa Dias 23 Interviewing the Devil: Interrogating Masters of the Cambodian Genocide 506 Deirdre Boyle 24 The Female Perpetrator: La Flaca Alejandra and Operation Atropos 524 Macarena Gómez-Barris 25 Toward the Dark Side: Seeing Detainee Bodies in Documentary Film 536 Anjali Nath Part IX Surveillance 557 Elizabeth Cowie Introduction 559 Elizabeth Cowie 26 Architectures of Control and Points of Resistance: Surveillance Culture and Digital Documentaries 566 Sharon Lin Tay 27 The World Viewed: Documentary Observing and the Culture of Surveillance 580 Elizabeth Cowie 28 Surveillance in the Service of Narrative 611 Brian Winston 29 Face Blind: Documentary Media and Subversion of Surveillance 629 Patrik Sjöberg Index 647

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"Alexandra Juhasz is Chair of the Film Department at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She is the author of AIDS TV (1995), Women of Vision (2001), F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing, co-edited with Jesse Lerner (2005), Learning from YouTube (2011), and co-editor of Sisters in the Life (with Yvonne Welbon, 2018), and AIDS and the Distribution of Crises (with Nishant Shahani and Jih-Fei Cheng). Dr Juhasz is the producer of the fake documentary feature films The Watermelon Woman (1997) and The Owls (2010), as well as many ""real"" documentaries. Her current work is on radical digital media literacy given that fact of fake news: fakenews-poetry.com. Alisa Lebow is Professor of Screen Media at the University of Sussex. Her publications include the interactive project Filming Revolution (2018), The Cinema of Me (2012), and First Person Jewish (2008) along with numerous articles on aspects of documentary ranging from art and documentary to questions of ""the political"" in documentary. Lebow has also made several documentaries including Outlaw (1994), Treyf (1998), and For the Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq (2006)."

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