Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film

Informationen zum Autor 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). 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.* 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 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

List 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 ?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
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 Ser

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"This collection is the very best of companions to have on a journey through contemporary documentary film. Edited by two of the smartest thinkers/practitioners around, and with an equally lively cast of authors, this book is required reading."
--Faye Ginsburg, New York University

Product details

• Authors: a Juhasz, Alexandra Juhasz, Alexandra (Pitzer College Juhasz, Alexandra Lebow Juhasz, Alisa Lebow
• Assisted by: Alexandra Juhasz (Editor), Juhasz Alexandra (Editor), Lebow (Editor), Alisa Lebow (Editor), Lebow Alisa (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781119685661
• ISBN: 978-1-119-68566-1
• No. of pages: 696
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Kommunikation, Dokumentarfilm, Volkskultur, Kulturwissenschaften, Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Filmtheorie, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, Film Theory, Political Communication, Communication & Media Studies, Kommunikation u. Medienforschung, Kommunikation i. d. Politik