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Documentary Film, Memory and the Performance of Violence
Walflower Press
January 2013
On Sale: January 8, 2013
330 pages
ISBN: 0231163355
EAN: 9780231163354
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Non-Fiction
Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is
perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media
coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and
news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical
understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the
imaginations and actions of perpetrators and survivors of
violence is all the more urgent. If the cinematic image and
mass violence are among the defining features of modernity,
the former is significantly implicated in the latter, and
the nature of this implication is the book's central focus.
This book brings together a range of newly
commissioned essays and interviews from the world's leading
academics and documentary filmmakers, including Ben
Anderson, Errol Morris, Harun Farocki, Rithy Phan, Avi
Mograbi, Brian Winston, and Michael Chanan. Contributors
explore such topics as the tension between remembrance and
performance, the function of moving images in the execution
of political violence, and nonfiction filmmaking methods
that facilitate communities of survivors to respond to,
recover, and redeem a history that sought to physically and
symbolically annihilate them
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