Overview

This volume offers a new and expanded history of the documentary form across a range of times and contexts, featuring original essays by leading historians in the field In a contemporary media culture suffused with competing truth claims, documentary media have become one of the most significant means through which we think in depth about the past. The most rigorous collection of essays on nonfiction film and media history and historiography currently available, A Companion to Documentary Film History offers an in-depth, global examination of central historical issues and approaches in documentary, and of documentary's engagement with historical and contemporary topics, debates, and themes. The Companion's twenty original essays by prominent nonfiction film and media historians challenge prevalent conceptions of what documentary is and was, and explore its growth, development, and function over time. The authors provide fresh insights on the mode's reception, geographies, authorship, multimedia contexts, and movements, and address documentary's many aesthetic, industrial, historiographical, and social dimensions. This authoritative volume: Offers both historical specificity and conceptual flexibility in approaching nonfiction and documentary media Explores documentary's multiple, complex geographic and geopolitical frameworks Covers a diversity of national and historical contexts, including Revolution-era Soviet Union, post-World War Two Canada and Europe, and contemporary China Establishes new connections and interpretive contexts for key individual films and film movements, using new primary sources Interrogates established assumptions about documentary authorship, audiences, and documentary's historical connection to other media practices. A Companion to Documentary Film History is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses covering documentary or nonfiction film and media, an excellent supplement for courses on national or regional media histories, and an important new resource for all film and media studies scholars, particularly those in nonfiction media.

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Author:   Joshua Malitsky (Indiana University) ,  Malin Wahlberg
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 1.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 1.00cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781119116240

ISBN 10:   1119116244
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   06 May 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Documentary Borders and Geographies Theme Editor, Alice Lovejoy  Contributors: 1.            Martin Johnson,  “A Distant Local View: The Small Town Film and U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and Occupation, 1942-1952” 2.            Paul Fileri, “The Work of Displacement in Colonial Documentary: History, Movement, and Collectivity Between the Postwar Metropole and Colonial French West Africa” 3.            Naoki Yamamoto, “Negation of the Negation: Tracking Documentary Film Theory in Japan” 4.            Raisa Sidenova,  “The Topographical Aesthetic in Late Stalinist Documentary Film” Authors and Authoring Agencies Theme Editor, James Cahill  Contributors: 1.            Zoe Druick, “Documentality: The Postwar Mental Health Film and the Database Logic of the Government Film Agency” 2.            Josh Neves, “Unmanned Capture: Automatic Cameras and Lifeless Subjects in Contemporary Documentary” 3.            Brian Jacobson, “Corporate Authorship: French Industrial Culture and the Culture of French Industry” 4.            Alla Gadassik, , “A Skillful Isis: Esfir Shub and the Documentarian as Caretaker” 5.            Philip Rosen, “Now and Then: On the Documentary Regime, Vertov, and History” Films and Film Movements Theme Editor, Joshua Malitsky  Contributors: 1.            Jane Gaines,  “Documentary Dreams of Activism and the ‘Arab Spring’” 2.            Luca Caminati, “A Culture of Reality: Neorealism, Narrative Non-Fiction, and Roberto Rossellini (1930s/1960s)” and translation of Alberto Cavalcanti, “Propaganda Documentaries” 3.            Thomas Waugh, “The Romantic Becomes Dialectic?: Joris Ivens, Cold Warrior and Socialist Realist, 1946-1956” Media Archaeologies Theme Editor, Malte Hagener  Contributors: 1.            Steven Jacobs,  “A Concise History and Theory of Documentaries on the Visual Arts” 2.            Weihang Bao, ”Documentary in the Age of Mass Mobility: Minzu wansui and the Epic Gesture of Ethnographic Propaganda” 3.            Oliver Gaycken, “Documentary Plasticity: Embryology and the Moving Image” 4.            Yvonne Zimmermann,  “Hans Richter and the Filmessay: A Media Archaeological Case Study of Documentary Film History and Historiography” Audiences and Circulation Theme Editor, Brian Winston  Contributors: 1.            Greg Waller, “Non-Fiction Film in and out of the Moving Picture Theater: Roosevelt in Africa (1910)” 2.            Brian Winston,  “The Marginal Spectator” 3.            Mariano Mestman, “‘Every spectator is either a coward or a traitor’: Watching The Hour of the Furnaces” 4.            William Uricchio, “From Media Effects to the Empathy Machine: The Nature of the Audience and the Persistence of Wishful Thinking”

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Joshua Malitsky is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies and Director of the Center for Documentary Research and Practice at Indiana University. He works on a range of topics related to documentary and other nonfiction media genres and has published a number of articles on documentary history and theory including topics such as the relationship between documentary and nation-building, documentary and science, documentary studies and linguistic anthropology, and the sports documentary. He is the author of Post-Revolution Non-Fiction Film: Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations. 

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