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Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2022), 410 pp.
"This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and videomaker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around
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Dokumentarfilm in Deutschland: Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2022), 398 pp.
"Die Geschichte des dokumentarischen Films in Deutschland ist mehr als bloße Filmgeschichte. In ihr spiegelt sich auch die Medien-, Mentalitäts- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte. So thematisiert der Dokumentarfilm seit seinen Anfängen im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert die politischen, kulturellen und soz
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Transitional (in)justice in phasing out coal in China: Documentary as visual evidence to unveil the local experiences of coal transitions
Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 171-176
"This article examines how documentary film can be employed as visual evidence to create a thick description of environmental injustice among low-social-economic status communities in China. In particular, this article exemplifies the approach with a case study of a 2022 research project on transiti
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Documentary Making for Digital Humanists
Key Guides
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2021), viii, 283 pp.
"This book sets out the fundamentals of filmmaking, explores academic discourse on digital documentaries and online distribution, and considers the place of this discourse in the evolving academic landscape. The book walks its readers through the intellectual and practical processes of creating digi
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Hier und anderswo: Palästina-Israel im essayistischen Film (1960-2010)
Marburg: Schüren (2021), 423 pp.
Big Perpetrator Cambodian cinema, the documentary duel and moral resentment
Screen, volume 62, issue 1 (2021), pp. 37-58
"Perpetrator cinema is a new global phenomenon, an unprecedented 21st-century boom in films that deal with genocidal or other mass-killing events by focusing on the perpetrator figure as their main protagonist or interviewee. In many respects it sheds light on the 21st-century emergence of the new p
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Image-Making-India: Visual Culture, Technology, Politics
London; New York: Routledge (2021), x, 165 pp.
"Building upon long-term ethnographic research among image-makers in Delhi, Mumbai and other Indian cities, the author interrogates the dialogue between visual culture, technology and changing notions of political participation. The book explores selected artistic experiences in documentary and fict
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Territorio y memorias sin fronteras: Nuevas estrategias para pensar lo real
Bogotá: Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto) (2021), 423 pp.
"Este libro es –nunca mejor dicho– el resultado de una memoria selectiva. Sus 19 tÃtulos dan cuenta de un ciclo que cierra una etapa inicial del Seminario Pensar lo Real como espacio de reflexión en torno a ‘lo documental’. Estuvo inspirado en el espÃritu de Pensar el documental, un encue
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When ‘Seeing Was Believing’: Visual Advocacy in the Early Decades of Humanitarian Cinema
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 3, issue 2 (2021), pp. 18-27
"Focusing on the pivotal period of 1919–23 and the large-scale humanitarian responses in Central and Eastern Europe, this paper discusses the development of advocacy in the movies made by organizations like the ICRC, Save the Children Fund or American Relief Administration. While aid agencies obse
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Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 292 pp.
"Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics explores how graphic narratives reframe global crises while also interrogating practices of fact-finding. An analog print phenomenon in an era shaped by digitalization, documentary comics formulates a distinct counterapproach to conventional journalism. In w
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Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxxii, 144 pp.
"This book covers Mai Masri’s three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold, unseen people, namely women and children, who lived these experiences of war and occupation. Former Le
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Darstellung von Migration und Flucht in dokumentarischen Formaten
Freiburg: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Master Thesis (2020), 71 pp.
"Die vorliegende Masterarbeit versuchte in einem Experiment herauszufinden, wie das journalistische Storytelling in dokumentarischen Filmformaten eingesetzt wird. Es konnte nachgewiesen werden, dass alle drei analysierten Filme sich einer alternativen Erzählkategorie zuordnen lassen und jeweils spe
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Directing the Documentary
Key Guides
Burlington; Oxford: Routledge, 7th ed. (2020), xxxix, 554 pp.
"Directing the Documentary is the definitive book on the documentary form, that will allow you to master the craft of documentary filmmaking. Focusing on the hands-on work needed to make your concept a reality, it covers the documentary filmmaking process from top to bottom, providing in-depth lesso
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Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
New York: Columbia University Press (2020), xxii, 285 pp.
"Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films documenting the Holocaust and genocides in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and elsewhere have focused on collecting
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Mobile Africa: Human Trafficking and the Digital Divide
Bamenda: Langaa (2019), xviii, 739 pp.
"What happens at the nexus of the digital divide and human trafficking? This book examines the impact of the introduction of new digital information and communication technology (ICT) – as well as lack of access to digital connectivity – on human trafficking. The different studies presented in t
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Get Close: Lean Team Documentary Filmmaking
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), vii, 204 pp.
"Author and veteran filmmaker Rustin Thompson shows that by stripping away, sidestepping, or reassessing the entrenched industry hurdles-long waits for funding, the unwieldy crews, the unnecessary gear, the gauntlet of film festivals, pitch forums, and distribution networks-filmmakers can move quick
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Kritik, Aktivismus und Prospektivität: Politische Strategien im postjugoslawischen Dokumentarfilm
Marburg: Schüren (2019), 368 pp.
"Während des kriegerischen Zerfalls von Jugoslawien und der Bildung neuer Nationalstaaten entstand in der Region ein reges Dokumentarfilmschaffen, das sich den dominanten Rhetoriken der Politik entgegenstellte. Anhand dieses Filmkorpus untersucht die Studie die Bedingungen der Filmproduktion und -r
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Documenting Syria: Film-Making, Video Activism and Revolution
London et al.: Tauris (2019), xiv, 321 pp.
"Since the 1970s, Syrian cinema masters played a defining role in avant-garde filmmaking and political dissent against authoritarianism. After the outbreak of violence in 2011, an estimated 500,000 video clips were uploaded making it one of the first YouTubed revolutions in history. This book is the
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Collaborating with Refugees: Power, Ethics and Reciprocity in Documentary Filmmaking
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, issue 18 (2019), pp. 160-174
"Representing stories through documentary film can offer a means to convey multilayered and sensory accounts of the lived experiences of people in extreme transition, especially former refugees. However, along with the potential of this medium comes the responsibility to engage with participants in
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