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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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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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Refugees on Film: Assessing the Political Strengths and Weaknesses of the Documentary Style
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, issue 18 (2019), pp. 107-122
"The article considers one dominant tendency of independent filmmaking, and its impact on the treatment of the refugee (broadly conceived): the application of contemporary documentary methods to both fiction and nonfiction works. The goal is a preliminary exploration of the complex, context-sensitiv
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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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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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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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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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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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Anonymity and Representation: Everyday Practices of Ethical Documentary Filmmaking
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, issue 18 (2019), pp. 175-182
"The five-minute film Mouth of a Shark (Isobel Blomfield, 2018) conveys a young woman’s experiences and precarious situation while she awaits an outcome on her refugee status determination in Australia. Aasiya (pseudonym) lives in community detention. Her interest in creating the film stemmed from
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The Impact Field Guide and Toolkit: From Art to Impact [in Arabic]
Key Guides
London et al.: Doc Society, 2nd ed. (2019), 238 pp.
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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Bilder einer besseren Welt: Die Utopie im nichtfiktionalen Film
Marburg: Schüren (2019), 424 pp.
The Impact Field Guide and Toolkit: From Art to Impact
Key Guides
London et al.: Doc Society, 2nd ed. (2019), 381 pp.
"This guide is about more than just tools and resources, it’s about building community. As with the process of evaluation, we saw an opportunity to learn about how impact happens and to track how films are catalysing social change. That’s the impetus behind the case studies that make up our Impa
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Guía práctica y herramientas para el impacto: Del arte al impacto
Key Guides
London et al.: Doc Society (2019), 237 pp.
"El objetivo de esta guía va más allá de presentar herramientas y recursos, pretende crear comunidad. Igual que sucede con el proceso de evaluación, vimos una oportunidad para aprender cómo se produce el impacto y hacer un seguimiento de cómo las películas están catalizando el cambio social.
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Rethinking Testimonial Cinema in Postdictatorship Argentina: Beyond Memory Fatigue
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2019), 272 pp.
"By critically examining how trauma theory and subaltern studies have previously been applied to testimonial cinema, Garibotto rereads Argentinian films produced since 1983 and calls for an alternate interpretive framework at the intersection of semiotics, theories of affect, scholarship on hegemony
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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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O guia de campo: Kit der ferramentas para o impacto. Da arte ao impacto
Key Guides
London et al.: Doc Society (2019), 238 pp.
"Nós oferecemos ideias e abordagens para que você não tenha que lidar com um obstáculo que alguém já ultrapassou e, com isso, concentrar-se nos desafios próprios de seu projeto. Disponibilizamos todas as nossas colaborações, conversas, acordos e desentendimentos com equipes de filmagem incr
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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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Report on the Feature Documentary Film 'The Opium War': Focusing on the Director's Point of View
Seoul: Chung-Ang University, Gradutate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia and Film, Master Thesis (2018), xi, 82 pp.
"The main purpose of this report is to analyze the documentary feature film called 'The Opium War' based on the civilians' antidrug movement in the author's home place, Myanmar's Kachin state. The film mainly focuses on the antidrug movement 'Pat Jasan' organized by Myanmar civilians and which liter
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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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