Overview

This volume examines documentary films that compel us to bear witness, move us to anger or tears, and possibly mobilize us to action. The essays gathered here analyze questions regarding the usefulness and legitimacy of documentary testimony: What is the value of the historical archive the televised public hearings or activist online videos constitute? Is it made part of the official record, or dismissed as renegade or ephemeral? To what extent can documentary bring about social change? How do the documentary testimonies compensate for or account for the frailty of memory?

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Author:   Bhaskar Sarkar (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) ,  Janet Walker (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   v. 4
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780415996648

ISBN 10:   0415996643
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   11 November 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Moving Testimonies Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker 1. Embodied Memory: The Institutional Mediation of Survivor Testimony in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Noah Shenker 2. ""We Shall Drown, But We Shall Not Move"": The Ecologics of Testimony in NBA Documentaries Bishnupriya Ghosh 3. Rights and Return: Perils and Fantasies of Situated Testimony after Katrina Janet Walker 4. From ""Superbabies"" and ""Nazi Bastards"" to Victims Finding a Voice: The Memory Trajectory of the Norwegian Lebensborn Children Bjørn Sørenssen 5. Reclamation of Voice: The Joint Authorship of Testimony in The Murmuring Trilogy Hye Jean Chung 6. Trauma, Memory, Documentary: Re-enactment in Two Films by Rithy Panh (Cambodia) and Garin Nugroho (Indonesia) Deirdre Boyle 7. On Documentary and Testimony: The Revisionists’ History, the Politics of Truth, and the Remembrance of the Massacre at Acteal, Chiapas José Rabasa 8. Mediating Testimony: Broadcasting South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission Catherine Cole 9. Mediating Genocide: Producing Digital Survivor Testimony in Rwanda Mick Broderick 10. Between Orbit and the Ground: Conflict Monitoring, Google Earth and the ""Crisis in Darfur"" Project Lisa Parks"

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