Visible Evidence – serie
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23 produkter
Recording Reality, Desiring the Real
Häftad, 2011
299 kr
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Documentary has once again emerged as one of the most vital cultural forms, whether seen in cinemas or inside the home, as digital, film, or video. In Recording Reality, Desiring the Real, Elizabeth Cowie looks at the history of documentary and its contemporary forms, showing how it has been …
Between the Sheets, in the Streets
Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary
Häftad, 1997
357 kr
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The first book to focus on the connections between sexuality, activism, and documentary film.From film festivals to university campuses, from private homes to first-run theaters, people everywhere are viewing and discussing gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual, and transgender films and videos. Between …
States of Emergency
Documentaries, Wars, Democracies
Häftad, 2000
301 kr
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A passionate argument for the importance of radical documentary and experimental filmmaking in the face of rapid technological and political change.Today’s political, technological, and aesthetic landscapes are rife with landmines. In this embattled milieu, leftist filmmakers and conservatives …
Technologies of Truth
Cultural Citizenship and the Popular Media
Av Toby Miller
Häftad, 1998
287 kr
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Offers an original and refreshing discussion of the media’s effect on everyday culture.In a world ever more complex and media-saturated, what is the value of the truth? In Technologies of Truth, Toby Miller provides a pithy and clear-sighted examination of how television, magazines, film, and …
Feminism and Documentary
Häftad, 1999
287 kr
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The first book of essays to explore the intersection of these two vital disciplines.Documentary and feminist film studies have long been separate or parallel universes that need to converse or collide. The essays in this volume, written by prominent scholars and filmmakers, demonstrate the …
Collecting Visible Evidence
Av Jane Gaines
Häftad, 1999
290 kr
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A redefinition of the nature of documentary film.In documentary studies, the old distinctions between fiction and nonfiction no longer apply, as contemporary film and video artists produce works that defy classification. Coming together to make sense of these developments, the contributors to this …
Wiping the War Paint Off the Lens
Native American Film and Video
Häftad, 2001
260 kr
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The first comprehensive exploration of Native American filmmaking and video production.Native Americans have thrown themselves into filmmaking since the mid-1970s, producing hundreds of films and videos, and their body of work has had great impact on Native cultures and filmmaking itself. With …
Emile De Antonio
A Reader
Häftad, 2000
330 kr
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An absorbing collection of writings by and about an American original.Innovative documentary filmmaker; friend of Andy Warhol, John Cage, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and other leading figures of the New York art world; radical leftist critic of the Establishment; and legendary bon vivant: …
Women of Vision
Histories in Feminist Film and Video
Häftad, 2001
298 kr
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Legends and rising stars of feminist film and video tell their stories.Alexandra Juhasz asked twenty-one women to tell their stories-women whose names make up a who is (and who will be) who of independent and experimental film and video. What emerged in the resulting conversations is a compelling …
Subject of Documentary
Häftad, 2004
319 kr
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The documentary, a genre as old as cinema itself, has traditionally aspired to objectivity. Whether making ethnographic, propagandistic, or educational films, documentarians have pointed the camera outward, drawing as little attention to themselves as possible. In recent decades, however, a new …
American Family
A Televised Life
Häftad, 2001
273 kr
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The first in-depth look at this pioneering "reality TV" documentary.Before 1973, the Loud family of Santa Barbara, California, lived in the privacy of their own home. With the airing of the documentary An American Family, that "privacy" extended to every American home with a television-and there …
There's No Place Like Home Video
Häftad, 2002
295 kr
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Defines, examines, and elevates home video to its rightful placeFrom its recording of family events to its influence on filmmaking, home video defies easy categorization and demands serious consideration. In There’s No Place Like Home Video, James Moran takes on this neglected aspect of popular …
Circuits of Culture
Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes
Häftad, 2007
301 kr
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Set against the background of Bolivia’s prominent urban festival parades and the country’s recent appearance on the front lines of antiglobalization movements, Circuits of Culture is the first social analysis of Bolivian film and television, their circulation through the social and national …
Cine-Ethnography
Av Jean Rouch
Häftad, 2003
301 kr
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One of the most influential figures in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, Jean Rouch has made more than one hundred films in West Africa and France. In such acclaimed works as Jaguar, The Lion Hunters, and Cocorico, Monsieur Poulet, Rouch has explored racism, colonialism, African modernity, …
F Is for Phony
Fake Documentary and Truth'S Undoing
Av Alexandra Juhasz, Jesse Lerner
Häftad, 2006
273 kr
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Fake documentaries mimic documentary genre expectations, unraveling the documentary’s authority and dismantling understandings of identity, history, and nation. The interdisciplinary essays in F Is for Phony discuss a broad scope of works and explore issues raised by “fake docs” such as the …
First Person Jewish
Häftad, 2008
275 kr
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Documentaries have increasingly used the first person, with a number of prominent filmmakers finding critical and commercial success with this intimate approach. Jewish filmmakers have particularly thrived in this genre, using it to explore disparate definitions of the self in relation to the …
Right to Play Oneself
Looking Back on Documentary Film
Av Thomas Waugh
Häftad, 2011
313 kr
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The Right to Play Oneself collects for the first time Thomas Waugh’s essays on the politics, history, and aesthetics of documentary film, written between 1974 and 2008. The title, inspired by Walter Benjamin’s and Joris Ivens’s manifestos of “committed” documentary from the 19 0s, reflects the …
Cinema's Alchemist
The Films of Péter Forgács
Av Bill Nichols, Michael Renov
Häftad, 2011
313 kr
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PÉter ForgÁcs, based in Budapest, is best known for his award-winning films built on home movies from the 1930s to the 1960s that document ordinary lives soon to intersect with offscreen historical events. Cinema’s Alchemist offers a sustained exploration of the imagination and skill with which …
Documentary Time
Film and Phenomenology
Häftad, 2008
290 kr
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Finding the theoretical space where cinema and philosophy meet, Malin Wahlberg’s sophisticated approach to the experience of documentary film aligns with attempts to reconsider the premises of existential phenomenology. The configuration of time is crucial in organizing the sensory affects of film …
Creating the Witness
Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet
Häftad, 2012
313 kr
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Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying learn this sobering fact and more as they work to ensure the survival of a virtual refugee camp. The video game not only puts players in the position of a …
Ferocious Reality
Documentary According to Werner Herzog
Av Eric Ames
Häftad, 2012
313 kr
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Over the course of his career Werner Herzog, known for such visionary masterpieces as Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), has directed almost sixty films, roughly half of which are documentaries. And yet, in a statement delivered during a public appearance in …
"Night and Fog"
A Film in History
Häftad, 2014
310 kr
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FranÇois Truffaut called Night and Fog “the greatest film ever made.” But when Alain Resnais finished his documentary, with its depiction of Nazi atrocities, the resistance of the French censors was fierce. A mere decade had passed since the end of the war, and the French public was unprepared to …
