Description
This volume will be a ‘time capsule’ of the first 10 years of Studies in Documentary Film (2007–2016), tracing not only the development of the journal but also of documentary studies in the same period. Issues such as the rise of digital documentary forms and authorship, documentary activism, and the Chinese Independent documentary, as well as diverse political issues, will be raised in the introduction and evidenced in the articles. The chapters have been chosen for the various themes they raise in documentary studies but also the broader field of documentary scholarship (including publishing), and the rise of the internet as a powerful force in documentary studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction Deane Williams
1. ‘Testimony in the umbra of trauma: film and video portraits of survival’ Janet Walker
2. The field of digital documentary: a challenge to documentary theorists Craig Hight
3. Two Laws still: notes on resonance Jason De Santolo
4. Documenting the political: some issues John Corner
5. Reassembling the nation: Iraq in Fragments and the acoustics of occupation Selmin Kara
6. ‘Documentary Filmmaking in the Postmodern Age: Errol Morris & The Fog of Truth’ Lucia Ricciardelli
7. Interactive documentary: setting the field Judith Aston and Sandra Gaudenzi
8. What is documentary mise-en-scène? Coutinho’s mannerism and Salles’s ‘mauvaise conscience’ Fernão Pessoa Ramos
9. The poetic mode as depiction: sense-value and Gideon Koppel’s sleep furiously Dara Waldron
10. Personal camera as public intervention: remembering the Cultural Revolution in Chinese independent documentary films Jing Meng
