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This book gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices that explore how audiovisual media can serve as a catalyst for healing, reparation, resilience, care, and hope. It will be of interest to film and media studies, cultural studies, memory studies, performance studies, and affect studies, and practitioners of audiovisual media.
List of contents
Seeking Recuperation: An Introduction
1. Rupture and Reparation in Audiovisual Narratives of Displacement
2. Recuperating the Archival Void: Documentary Film and the
Creation of a Health3. The Space of Thirdness: Intermediating performative treatments in artists' moving image
4. Ethnic Healing: Fighting the Ethic of Unacknowledgeability Through the Documentary Format - the
Srbenka (2018) Case
5.
Affectionate stories, memory fragments: a documentary on the postmemory of Italian immigration in Brazil
6. Black Setúbal: The creative process behind an audiowalk app on the Black presence in the town of Setúbal
7. A Hybrid Media System of Care: Cancer Diaries and Social Media
8. Digital Ecosystems for and by Scholactivists: Well-Being without Borders
9. The Mirror and the Telephone: Diagnosing and Healing in the films of Robert Siodmak
10. Mourning in Horror: Grief in Twenty-First-Century Horror Films
11. An Artist Roundtable on Healing Through Audio-Visuality: Relationality, Embodiment, and New Collective Futures
Index
About the author
Özgür Çiçek is a film scholar, researcher, and lecturer in the Media and Culture Department at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research interests lie at the intersection of national and transnational cinemas,
minor cinemas, audiovisual heritage and media memory studies, documentary film and archive studies, film philosophy and aesthetics. Her forthcoming monograph is provisionally titled
Kurdish Cinema in Turkey: Imprisonment, Memory, and the Archive.Özlem Savä is a media studies scholar, researcher and lecturer at the Department of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology at European University Viadrina, Germany. Her interdisciplinary work bridges media studies, migration studies and cultural studies, with a particular emphasis on affect and emotions, aesthetic and cultural production, and everyday life. Her forthcoming monograph,
The Sigh of Displacement: Affective Practices of Mediating Migration and Belonging, is under contract with Routledge.
