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Informationen zum Autor Alexandra Juhasz is Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College. 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), and Learning from YouTube (2011). Dr. Juhasz is also the producer of the fake documentary feature films The Watermelon Woman (1997) and The Owls (2010), as well as many "real" documentaries. Alisa Lebow is a Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. Her publications include First Person Jewish (2008) and The Cinema of Me (2012) and 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). Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ?elimir ?ilnik'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 Bishn...
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"This collection is the very best of companions to have ona journey through contemporary documentary film. Edited by two ofthe smartest thinkers/practitioners around, and with an equallylively cast of authors, this book is required reading."
Faye Ginsburg, New York University
