Today’s digital environment features a growing circulation of repurposed archival audiovisual material. This dissertation builds on Jaimie Baron’s argument that the repurposing of audiovisual footage forms the contemporary experience of history today. I expand on her framework o…
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This dissertation’s primary objective is to interrogate the intersection of virtual realityand nonfiction media, expanding and troubling the rhetorical limits of “documentary” in order tobetter understand what role the concept of “reality” plays in contemporary political and cul…
One of the most popular genres in cinema is concerned with the artistic recreation of history, the biographical picture a.k.a. the biopic. Controversy surrounds these kinds of films when the screenwriter alters the historical facts of the story to serve the narrative. When an au…
The Korean War has served as one of the crucial historical conflicts in China’s relations with other countries, especially with the United States. However, the narrative of the official memory and the meaning of the War in China have changed dramatically from the wartime period …
This hybrid theory-practice dissertation advocates for a landscape mode of documentary media-making. Providing case studies from the history of non-narrative city filmmaking, this work breaks new ground by locating this form in the context of environmentalist and social justice …
