| Description |
1 online resource (x, 281 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
AFI film readers series
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AFI film readers.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : moving testimonies / Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker -- Embodied memory : the institutional mediation of survivor testimony in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Noah Shenker -- "We shall drown, but we shall not move" : the ecologics of testimony in NBA documentaries / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- Rights and return: perils and fantasies of situated testimony after Katrina / Janet Walker -- From "superbabies" and "Nazi bastards" to victims finding a voice : the memory trajectory of the Norwegian lebensborn children / Bjørn Sørenssen -- Reclamation of voice : the joint authorship of testimony in the murmuring trilogy / Hye Jean Chung -- Trauma, memory, documentary : re-enactment in two films by Rithy Panh (Cambodia) and Garin Nugroho (Indonesia) / Deirdre Boyle -- On documentary and testimony : the revisionists' history, the politics of truth, and the remembrance of the massacre at Acteal, Chiapas / José Rabasa -- Mediating testimony : broadcasting South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Catherine M. Cole -- Mediating genocide : producing digital survivor testimony in Rwanda / Mick Broderick -- Between orbit and the ground : conflict monitoring, Google Earth and the "Crisis in Darfur" project / Lisa Parks. |
| Summary |
Examines documentary films. This title features the essays that analyze questions regarding the usefulness and legitimacy of documentary testimony: What is the value of the historical archive the televised public hearings or activist online videos constitute? And is it made part of the official record, or dismissed as renegade or ephemeral? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Documentary films -- Production and direction.
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Documentary films -- Production and direction. |
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Documentary films -- Social aspects.
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Documentary films -- Social aspects. |
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Documentary films. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sarkar, B. (Bhaskar)
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Walker, Janet, 1955-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Documentary testimonies. New York : Routledge, 2010 9780415996631 (DLC) 2009020054 (OCoLC)237880702 |
| ISBN |
9780203883419 (electronic book) |
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0203883411 (electronic book) |
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9780415996631 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780415996648 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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