Documentary testimonies : global archives of suffering / / edited by Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Disciplina: 070.18; 302.234
• Soggetto topico: Documentary films - Production and direction; Documentary films - Social aspects
• Altri autori: SarkarB (Bhaskar) WalkerJanet <1955->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; contents; illustrations; acknowledgments; introduction: moving testimonies; one embodied memory: the institutional mediation of survivor testimony in the united states holocaust memorial museum; two "we shall drown, but we shall not move": the ecologics of testimony in nba documentaries; three rights and return: perils and fantasies of situated testimony after katrina; four from "super babies" and "nazi bastards" to victims finding a voice: the memory trajectory of the norwegian lebensborn children ; five reclamation of voice: the joint authorship of testimony in the murmuring trilogysix trauma, memory, documentary: re-enactment in two films by rithy panh (cambodia) and garin nugroho (indonesia); seven on documentary and testimony: the revisionists' history, the politics of truth, and the remembrance of the massacre at acteal, chiapas; eight mediating testimony: broadcasting south africa's truth and reconciliation commission; nine mediating genocide: producing digital survivor testimony in rwanda ; ten between orbit and the ground: conflict monitoring, google earth and the "crisis in darfur" projectcontributors; index
• Sommario/riassunto: Documentary Testimonies examines documentary films that compel us to bear witness, move us to anger or tears, and possibly mobilize us to action.Comprising ten new essays and a substantive introduction, this interdisciplinary volume examines audiovisual testimonial practices, forms, and institutions. Topics include: technologies of capture, storage and circulation; problems of historical veracity/frail memory; generation of video archives--official, renegade, and ephemeral; limits and potentialities of documentary as public record; architectonics of memory; ethics of witness
• Titolo autorizzato: Documentary testimonies
• ISBN: 1-135-84267-1; 1-135-84268-X; 1-282-44341-0; 9786612443411; 0-203-88341-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810929903321
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• Serie: AFI film readers.