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Filmische Zeugenschaft im Abseits: Kulturelle Dekolonisierungsprozesse und Dokumentarfilme zwischen Mosambik und Portugal
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2018), 284 pp.
"Wie wird koloniale Gewalt historisch thematisiert? Wie gehen dokumentarische Filme und geschichtspolitische Diskurse mit ihr um? Robert Stock nähert sich diesen Fragen mit kritischem Blick auf den Kolonialkrieg Portugals in Afrika und den nationalen Befreiungskampf Mosambiks. Dabei fokussiert er s
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Mobilität und Zeugenschaft: Unabhängige Dokumentarfilmpraktiken und der Kaschmirkonflikt
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2018), 324 pp.
"Ist unabhängiges Dokumentarfilmschaffen im Kaschmirkonflikt möglich? Über den Fokus auf Mobilität zeigt Max Kramer neue theoretische und methodische Zugänge zur Erforschung von filmischen Praktiken in Konfliktregionen auf. Er argumentiert, dass die Herstellung von Zeugenschaft zunehmend auf ve
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Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers: Practising Independence
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2018), 209 pp.
"Based on detailed onsite observation of documentary production, circulation practices and the analysis of film texts, this book identifies independence as a 'tactical practice', contesting the normative definitions and functions assigned to culture, cultural production and producers in a neoliberal
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Human Rights, Social Movements and Activism in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xi, 265 pp.
"[This book] reflects on the extent to which films can play an active role in denouncing human rights abuses and exposing the struggle for visibility of different social movements and minorities. This collection explores Latin American cinema’s representations of human rights violators and oppress
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The Perpetrator’s mise-en-scène: Language, Body, and Memory in the Cambodian Genocide
Journal of Perpetrator Research, volume 2, issue 1 (2018), pp. 65-94
"Rithy Panh’s film 'S-21. The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine' (2003) was the result of a three-year shooting period in the Khmer Rouge centre of torture where perpetrators and victims exchanged experiences and re-enacted scenes from the past under the gaze of the filmmaker’s camera. Yet, a crucial
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Offenes Erzählen: Experimente im zeitgenössischen indischen Dokumentarfilm
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2017), 203 pp.
"Der Dokumentarfilm gilt in Indien als kommerziell schwer auswertbares Genre - und stellt dennoch ein Feld dar, in welchem Experimente entstehen können. Angesichts der gegenwärtigen gesellschaftlichen Umbrüche untersucht Ulrike Mothes den aktuellen indischen Dokumentarfilm hinsichtlich seiner fil
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Shine a Little Light: Celebrities, Humanitarian Documentary, and 'Half the Sky'
"'Half the Sky' is an ambitious humanitarian documentary about the global crises in gender discrimination. Based on Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book (Kristof and WuDunn 2010), the nearly four-hour documentary visits six countries to explore six issues: gender-based violence in Sierra Leone,
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Last Station Before Hell: United Nations Peacekeepers
"The article discusses the film 'Last Station Before Hell' by Pierre-Olivier François. United Nations' Peacekeepers known as the Blue Helmets, are often the subject of criticism and negative press reports. Most notably they have been blamed for transmitting cholera to the victims of the earthquake
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Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary
Durham: Duke University Press (2017), xiv, 254 pp.
"Endangered life is often used to justify humanitarian media intervention, but what if suffering humanity is both the fuel and outcome of such media representations? Pooja Rangan argues that this vicious circle is the result of immediation, a prevailing documentary ethos that seeks to render human s
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The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), x, 246 pp.
Safe+Secure Handbook
Key Guides
DOC Funders Network (2017), 59 pp.
"Getting to the heart of stories by asking the really tough questions and going places where no one wants to go. That’s documentary at its best. This Safe+Secure Handbook has been designed to help filmmakers get there—and back—and get their stories into the public domain as safely as possible.
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40.doc: Una historia del documental argentino en 40 pelÃculas
Buenos Aires: Margen Izquierdo (2016), 307 pp.
Video as Evidence: Field Guide
Key Guides
Witness (2016), 200 pp.
"The goal of the Field Guide is to provide methods for filmers to use so that their videos can be as valuable as possible in exposing abuse and bringing about justice. This resource will help ensure that more cameras in more hands can lead to more exposure and greater justice. Activists producing fo
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Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey: The Politics and Aesthetics of Identity and Resistance
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2016), xii, 269 pp.
"Documentary film is proving to be a particularly complex tool for the Kurdish social and political existence, as Kurds lack the official tools of history-writing and cultural preservation that are categorically associated with the capacities of a state. By delving into Kurdish documentary films as
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Story Money Impact: Funding Media for Social Change
New York; London: Routledge (2016), xiii, 256 pp.
"Today, social-issues storytellers are sharpening their craft, while funders with finite resources focus on reach, and strategic innovators bring more robust evaluation tools. Friesen illuminates the spark at the core of these three pursuits. Structured around stories from the front lines, Story Mon
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Produire un documentaire
Paris: Dixit éditions (2015), 167 pp.
New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World
Baden-Baden; London: Nomos; Bloomsbury (2015), 372 pp.
"This book explores socio-cultural dynamics in Asia and the Arab world, embedding them into current processes of mediatisation. The book is based on the assumption that social and cultural changes never originate exclusively from the media or technological innovations, but rather depend on the chang
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Independent Chinese Documentary: Alternative Visions, Alternative Publics
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2015), xii, 204 pp.
"This timely study is based on detailed interviews with Chinese documentary makers rarely available in English, and insights gained by the author while working as a journalist in Beijing. It considers the relationship between independent documentaries and China’s official film and television secto
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