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A companion to contemporary documentary film / edited by Alexandra Juhasz and Alisa Lebow Malden, MA: John Wiley and Sons, 2015.
Call No: 761 COMSource: USPlace: Malden, MAPublisher: John Wiley and SonsPubDate: 2015PhysDes: xvi, 674 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cmSubject: DOCUMENTARIES ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN FILMS ; SEA IN FILMS ; IMMIGRATION IN FILMS AND TELEVISION ; WORKERS IN FILMS ; YUGOSLAVIA ; SEX IN FILMS ; WOMEN MAKE MOVIES [organisation] ; DISEASES IN FILMS ; SCIENCE AND THE CINEMA ; SCIENCE IN FILMS ; AIDS ON TV. SOUTH AFRICA ; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA ; WAR FILMS ; BAL, MIEKE ; ZILNIK, ZELIMIR ; TRAN VAN THUY ; FAROCKI, HARUN ; CRUDE AWAKENING: THE OIL CRASH A (SZ, Basil Gelpke & Ray McCormack, 2006) ; CRUDE (US, Joe Berlinger, 2009) ; H [TWO] 2 OIL (CN, Shannon Walsh, 2009) ; PLANET, THE (SW/NO/DK, Michael Stenberg / John Soderberg / Linus Torell, 2006) ; INTO ETERNITY: A FILM FOR THE FUTURE (DK/FI/SW/IT, Michael Madsen, 2010) ; OTOLITH I [OTOLITH 1] (UK, Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, 2003) ; OTOLITH II [OTOLITH 2] (UK, Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, 2007) ; OTOLITH III [OTOLITH 3] (UK, Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, 2009) ; INCONVENIENT TRUTH, AN (US, Davis Guggenheim, 2006) ; SOMEPLACE WITH A MOUNTAIN (US/FM, Steve Goodall, 2010) ; CONTAINED MOBILITY (SZ, Ursula Biemann, 2004) ; SAHARA CHRONICLE (SZ, Ursula Biemann, 2006-2009) ; GHOSTS (UK, Nick Broomfield, 2006) ; LOVE ON DELIVERY [FRA THAILAND TIL THY] (DK, Janus Metz Pedersen, 2007) ; TICKET TO PARADISE [FRA THY TIL THAILAND] (DK, Janus Metz Pedersen, 2008) ; WHEN MOTHER COMES HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (II/GR, Nilita Vachani, 1996) ; H [TWO] 2 WORKER (US, Stephanie Black, 1990) ; LIFE AND DEBT (US, Stephanie Black, 2001) ; MAQUILAPOLIS: CITY OF FACTORIES (MX/US, Sergio de la Torre and Vicky Funari, 2006) ; DECENT FACTORY, A (FR/FI/UK/AT/DK, Thomas Balmes, 2004) ; WHY CYBRACEROS? (US,Alex Rivera, 1997) ; WHY BRACEROS? (US, 1959) ; VALLEY CENTRO, EL (US, James Benning, 1999) ; LOS (US, James Benning, 2001) ; DOUBLE TIDE (US/AU, Sharon Lockhart, 2009) ; GLEANERS AND I, THE [GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE, LES] (FR, Agnes Varda, 2000) ; GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE, LES: DEUX ANS APRES (FR, Agnes Varda, 2002) ; WORKINGMAN'S DEATH (AU/GG, Michael Glawogger, 2005) ; OLD SCHOOL OF CAPITALISM, THE [STARA SKOLA KAPITALIZMA] (SB, Zelimir Zilnik, 2009) ; LIVE NUDE GIRLS UNITE! (US, Julia Query & Vicky Funari, 2000) ; TALES OF THE NIGHT FAIRIES (II, Shohini Ghosh, 2002) ; SCARLET ROAD (AT, Catherine Scott, 2011) ; PLACE OF RAGE, A [WARRIOR MARKS] (UK, Pratibha Parmar, 1991) ; DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET, THE (UK, Kim Longinotto, 2002) ; AFRICA RISING (US, Paula Heredia, 2009) ; SENORITA EXTRAVIADA [MISSING YOUNG WOMAN] (MX, Lourdes Portillo, 2001) ; PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990) ; WILDNESS (US, Wu Tsang, 2012) ; INNER LIFE OF THE CELL (US, XVIVO, 2006) ; BEAT IT! [TV] (SA, 2001) ; MY REINCARNATION (SZ/NE/IT/GG/FI/VE/US/TZ/SI/MY/RM/CC/MX/RU/IS/AU, Jennifer Fox, 2011) ; GEVALD (IS, Netalie Braun, 2009) ; BLACK BUS (IS, Anat Zuria, 2010) ; REBELLIOUS SON, THE (IS, Shosi Greenfield, 2009) ; STORY OF KINDNESS [CHUYEN TU TE] (V, Tran Van Thy, 1987) ; NICHT LOSCHBARES FEUER [INEXTINGUISHABLE FIRE] (GR, Harun Farocki, 1969) ; IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR [BILDER DER WELT UND INSCHRIFT DES KRIEGES] (GW, Harun Farocki, 1988) ; SERIOUS GAMES [series] (GG, Harun Farocki, 2009) ; I ONLY WISH I COULD WEEP (LE, Wallid Raad, 2002) ; MIRACULOUS BEGINNINGS (LE, Walid Raad) ; SPIRITUAL VOICES: FROM THE DIARIES OF WAR [DUKHOVNYE GOLOSA, IZ DNEVNIKOV VOYNY. POVESTVOVANIE V PYATI CHASTYAKH] [TV] (RU, Aleksandr Sokurov, 1995) ; DAY OF THE SPARROW [DER TAG DES SPATZEN] (GG, Philip Scheffner, 2010) ; [FORTY-EIGHT] 48 (PO, Susana de Sousa Dias, 2010) ; ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE (UK/CB, Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin, 2009) ; DUCH: MASTER OF THE FORGES OF HELL (CB, Rithy Panh, 2011) ; SKINNY ALEJANDRA: LIVES AND DEATHS OF A CHILEAN WOMAN [LA FLACA ALEJANDRA: VIDAS Y MUERTES DE UNA CHILENA] (CL, Carmen Castillo, 1994) ; OPERATION ATROPOS (CL, Coco Fusco, 2005) ; ROAD TO GUANTANAMO, THE (UK, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, 2006) ; TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE (US, Alex Gibney, 2007) ; BRIDGE, THE (UK/US, Eric Steel, 2006) Summary: This book 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. This book presents a comprehensive collection of essays relating to all aspects of contemporary documentary films It 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. This book 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. This book considers a wide diversity of documentary films that fall outside typical canons, including international and avant-garde documentaries presented in a variety of media.ISBN: 9780470671641Contents: Machine generated contents note: pt. I Planet / Juan Francisco Salazar -- 1.Crude Aesthetics: The Politics of Oil Documentaries / Imre Szeman -- 2.Anticipatory Modes of Futuring Planetary Change in Documentary Film / Juan Francisco Salazar -- 3.Projecting Sea Level Rise: Documentary Film and Other Geolocative Technologies / Janet Walker -- pt. II Migration / Aniko Imre -- Introduction / Aniko Imre -- 4.Videogeographies / Ursula Biemann -- 5.Rates of Exchange: Human Trafficking and the Global Marketplace / Leshu Torchin -- 6.Documenting What? Auto-Theory and Migratory Aesthetics / Mieke Bal -- pt. III Work / Silke Panse -- Introduction / Silke Panse -- 7.The Work of the Documentary Protagonist: The Material Labor of Aesthetics / Silke Panse -- 8.Old School Capitalism in Post-Socialism: The Struggles of Zelimir Zilnik's Workers / Ewa Mazierska -- 9.Capturing the Labors of Sex Work: The Pedagogical Role of Documentary Film / Anna E. Ward -- pt. IV Sex / Laura Hyun Yi Kang -- Contents note continued: Introduction / Laura Hyun Yi Kang -- 10.Documentary Practice and Transnational Feminist Theory: The Visibility of FGC / Patricia White -- 11.Transforming Terror: Documentary Poetics in Lourdes Portillo's Senorita Extraviada (2001) / Rosa-Linda Fregoso -- 12.Reading Realness: Paris Is Burning, Wildness, and Queer and Transgender Documentary Practice / Eve Oishi -- pt. V Virus / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- Introduction / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- 13.Animating Informatics: Scientific Discovery Through Documentary Film / Kirsten Ostherr -- 14.HIV on Documentary Television in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Rebecca Hodes -- 15.Digital AIDS Documentary: Webs, Rooms, Viruses, and Quilts / Alexandra Juhasz -- pt. VI Religion / Alisa Lebow -- Introduction / Alisa Lebow -- 16.Rising in the East, Sett(l)ing in the West: The Emergence of Buddhism as Contemporary Documentary Subject / Angelica Fenner -- Contents note continued: 17.The New Religious Wave in Israeli Documentary Cinema: Negotiating Jewish Fundamentalism During the Second Intifada / Raya Morag -- 18.Tran Van Thuy's Story of Kindness: Spirituality and Political Discourse / Dean Wilson -- pt. VII War / Jeffrey Skoller -- Introduction / Jeffrey Skoller -- 19.Second Thoughts on "The Production of Outrage: The Iraq War and the Radical Documentary Tradition" / Jane M. Gaines -- 20.One, Two, Three Montages ... Harun Farocki's War Documentaries / Nora M. Alter -- 21.The Unwar Film / Alisa Lebow -- pt. VIII Torture / Alisa Lebow -- Introduction / Alisa Lebow -- 22.(In)visible Evidence: The Representability of Torture / Susana de Sousa Dias -- 23.Interviewing the Devil: Interrogating Masters of the Cambodian Genocide / Deirdre Boyle -- 24.The Female Perpetrator: La Flaca Alejandra and Operation Atropos / Macarena Gomez-Barris -- 25.Toward the Dark Side: Seeing Detainee Bodies in Documentary Film / Anjali Nath --
Contents note continued: pt. IX Surveillance / Elizabeth Cowie -- Introduction / Elizabeth Cowie -- 26.Architectures of Control and Points of Resistance: Surveillance Culture and Digital Documentaries / Sharon Lin Tay -- 27.The World Viewed: Documentary Observing and the Culture of Surveillance / Elizabeth Cowie -- 28.Surveillance in the Service of Narrative / Brian Winston -- 29.Face Blind: Documentary Media and Subversion of Surveillance / Patrik Sjoberg.
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