Documentary testimonies: global archives of suffering

by Sarkar, B., (Bhaskar) Walker, Janet

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Full title :Documentary testimonies : global archives of suffering / edited by Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker.

Summary

Comprising ten new essays and a substantive introduction, this interdisciplinary volume provides an in-depth analysis of archives of social suffering tied to particular locales: Cambodia, Chiapas, Darfur, India, Indonesia, Korea, New Orleans, Norway, Rwanda, South Africa, and Washington, DC. Topics include technologies of capture, storage, and circulation; problems of historical veracity/frail memory; limits and potentialities of documentary as public record architectonics or memory; and ethics of witnessing. Focusing on the generation and use of testimonial archives by documentary filmmakers, public administrators and institutions, and others with interest in social and environmental justice and genocide commemoration and prevention, the volume aims to investigate, from a critical and translocal perspective, testimony as social practice.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 281 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415996631, 9780415996648, 0415996635, 0415996643, 9780203883419, 0203883411
oclc:ocn237880702
LC Classification:PN1995.9.D6
Dewey Decimal:070.1/8

Introduction : moving testimonies / Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker -- Embodied memory : the institutional mediation of survivor testimony in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Noah Shenker -- "We shall drown, but we shall not move" : the ecologics of testimony in NBA documentaries / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- Rights and return: perils and fantasies of situated testimony after Katrina / Janet Walker -- From "superbabies" and "Nazi bastards" to victims finding a voice : the memory trajectory of the Norwegian Lebensborn children / Bjørn Sørenssen -- Reclamation of voice : the joint authorship of testimony in the Murmuring trilogy / Hye Jean Chung -- Trauma, memory, documentary : re-enactment in two films by Rithy Panh (Cambodia) and Garin Nugroho (Indonesia) / Deirdre Boyle -- On documentary and testimony : the revisionists' history, the politics of truth, and the remembrance of the massacre at Acteal, Chiapas / José Rabasa -- Mediating testimony : broadcasting South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Catherine M. Cole -- Mediating genocide : producing digital survivor testimony in Rwanda / Mick Broderick -- Between orbit and the ground : conflict monitoring, Google…

Subjects

Audiovisuelle Medien Aufsatzsammlung Augenzeugenbericht cinéma documentaire -- études diverses.… cinéma documentaire -- études diverses.… Documentaires -- Production et réalisat… Documentary films -- Production and dir… Documentary films -- Social aspects Dokumentarfilm Leid Media studies