Post-1990 Documentary: Reconfiguring Independence

Camille Deprez; Judith Pernin

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2015

Post-1990 Documentary

Reconfiguring Independence

Camille Deprez and Judith Pernin

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748694143

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Presents in-depth case studies focusing on major aspects of post-1990 documentary practices and styles

In a post-1990 context of unrivalled creativity in documentary filmmaking, what does ‘independence’ really mean? With a broad selection of contributors, this is the first collection of in-depth case studies to cut across different media, formats, subject matters, purposes and national divides. Writing from a wide range of academic perspectives, contributors shed new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues concerning independent documentary, to better comprehend the radical transformations of the form over the past twenty-five years.

While the digital turn has been widely acknowledged as decisive in reshaping film practices, especially independent ones, this anthology aims at assessing its consequences without overestimating the impact of technology on other political, economic, social and cultural changes. Continuities as well as breaks are therefore put in perspective, with a particular focus on the interactions between these new practices and the established film and television industries.

Divided into three main sections on ‘History and Spaces of Resistance’, ‘The Personal Experience’ and ‘Displacement, Participation and Spectatorship’, Post-1990 Documentary: Reconfiguring Independence provides an innovative interpretation of under-studied subject matters and styles, and rare analysis of differing production, distribution and exhibition strategies. It not only helps to rethink the notion of independence, but also contributes to a fundamental change in our perception of documentary filmmaking.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Camille Deprez and Judith Pernin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I History and Spaces of Resistance
1 Post-unification (East) German Documentary and the Contradictions of Identity Barton Byg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2 No Going Back: Continuity and Change in Australian Documentary Deane Williams and John Hughes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3 A Space in Between: The Legacy of the Activist Documentary Film in India Camille Deprez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4 Languages, Speech and Voice: The Heritage of Jean Rouch and Pier Paolo Pasolini in Convention: Black Wall / White Holes Eric Galmard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
5 Chris Marker: Interactive Screen and Memory Kristian Feigelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
PART II The Personal Experience
6 The Survivor–Perpetrator Encounter and the Truth Archive in Rithy Panh’s Documentaries Raya Morag Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
7 Contesting Consensual Memory: The Work of Remembering in Chilean Autobiographical Documentaries Juliette Goursat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
8 ‘We All Invented Our Own Algeria’:1 Habiba Djahnine’s Letter to My Sister as Memory-Narrative Sheila Petty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
9 From the Ashes: The Fall of Apartheid and the Rise of the Lone Documentary Filmmaker in South Africa Liani Maasdorp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
10 A Personal Vision of the Hong Kong Cityscape in Anson Mak’s Essayistic Documentary Films One Way Street on a Turntable and On the Edge of a Floating City, We Sing Mike Ingham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
PART III Displacement, Participation and Spectatorship
11 Documentary Filmmakers on the Circuit: A Festival Career from Czech Dream to Czech Peace Aida Vallejo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
12 Material Traces of Lebanon: A Documentary Aesthetics of Feeling in the Art Gallery Tess Takahashi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
13 Autonomous Navigation? Multiplicity and Self-reflexive Aesthetics in Sergio Basso’s Documentary Film Giallo a Milano and Web Documentary Made in Chinatown Hilary Chung and Bernadette Luciano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
14 Fukushima and the Shifting Conventions of Documentary: From Broadcast to Social Media Netizenship Mick Broderick and Robert Jacobs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
15 Independent Documentaries and Online Uses in China: From Cinephilia to Activism Judith Pernin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Conclusion Camille Deprez and Judith Pernin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Notes on the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

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Published: June 24, 2015
ISBN: 9780748694143