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Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debates and films exhibited at Russian and US public festivals where the films have premiered, the volume's contributors-the new generati…
Investigative Journalism: Global Perspectives
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"Investigative Journalism: Global Perspectives presents a theoretical and practical guide to contemporary international investigative journalism to outline principles of modern investigative work in the digital world. A diverse range of contributions from academics, journalists,…
"Soul of the Documentary' offers a groundbreaking new approach to documentary cinema. Ilona Hongisto stirs current thinking by suggesting that the work of documentary films is not reducible to representing what already exists. By close-reading a diverse body of films - from 'The…
In Soul of the Documentary, Ilona Hongisto stirs current thinking about documentary cinema by suggesting that the work of documentary films is not reducible to representing what already exists. By close-reading a diverse body of films - from The Last Bolshevik to Grey Gardens - …
This practice-based research was born out of the short documentary, My Kosher Shifts, which was made for a Master's in Documentary Practice at Brunel University, London. The film was shot in an ultraorthodox Jewish hotel in London, in which the filmmaker worked as a receptionist…
Discussions about the early films of Humphrey Jennings refer to his artistic and intellectual background to explain the nature and scope of his film work. Such discussions, however, tend to rely on highly selective and partial information from existing accounts. This tendency ha…
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 creative submission for my dissertation includes two of my documentary works: They Will Take My Island, a thirty-minute multimedia collaboration with filmmaker Atom Egoyan for amplified string octet, electronic track, and film, commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art;…
In this thesis work, Sand and Dust is an installation containing multiple types of work, including short videos, short film, sound, photograph, and documentary. Sand and Dust title is inspired by the title of the song written by Trinh Cong Son. This song abstracts the concepts o…
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…
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…
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 …
The film follows Peter Zack, a Marine Corps veteran of the recent War in Iraq. Peter is also a Revolutionary War living historian. He has been reenacting 18th century military life since he was 16 years old. The film follows Peter as he participates in a few Revolutionary War li…
Unnecessary Suffering: new treatment cures hepatitis C is a New Media Photojournalism thesis by Imran Khan presents educates the public on the global threat of the hepatitis C epidemic and treatment options: interferon vs. sobosfuvir. The thesis is presented as a website that co…
Rendered Visualities: Representation and Detention in the War on Terror examines how representations of detention in documentary, Hollywood cinema, art installations, and US government documents reproduce modern racialized and gendered logics of American Empire. Since 9/11, ther…