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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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Generation Africa - Facilitation Guide
Steps (2022), 76 pp.
"The Generation Africa project centres on the lived experiences of African youth, the largest youth demographic in the world, whose futures will determine the shape of global fortunes over the next few decades. Working with 25 filmmakers and production companies from 16 countries in Africa, the coll
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Decolonising Political Communication in Africa: Reframing Ontologies
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 226 pp.
"This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the cre
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Children’s Documentaries: Distance and Ethics in European Storytelling About the Wider World
Journal of Children and Media, volume 16, issue 2 (2022), pp. 288-302
"The material challenges of funding, commissioning and distribution that are well known to inhibit production of children’s factual content about other countries and cultures operate in parallel with challenges arising from the moral responsibilities inherent in what Roger Silverstone called “th
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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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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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Documentary Making for Digital Humanists
Key Guidance
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.
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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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 títulos 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 espíritu de Pensar el documental, un encue
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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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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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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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Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), viii, 265 pp.
"This work examines the vibrant field of documentary filmmaking in Brazil from the transition to democracy in 1985 to the present. Marked by significant efforts toward the democratization of Brazil's highly unequal society, this period also witnessed the documentary's rise to unprecedented vitality
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African Cinema and Human Rights
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2019), x, 314 pp.
"Bringing theory and practice together, 'African Cinema and Human Rights' argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the causes of justice and fairness. The contributors to this volume identify three key ways in which film can achieve these goals: documenting human rights
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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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Documenting atrocities around the world: Why engage with the perpetrators?
International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 22, issue 6 (2019), pp. 804-822
"Following a century filled with violations of human rights, a significant number of documentary films have appeared since the first decade of the current century that report these events. Traditionally this process is carried out from the victims’ point of view. However, a new tendency has emerge
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Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), xiii, 280 pp.
"The potential of documentary moving images to foster democratic exchange has been percolating within media production culture for the last century, and now, with mobile cameras at our fingertips and broadcasts circulating through unpredictable social networks, the documentary impulse is coming into
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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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