Filming history from below : microhistorical documentaries /
In recent decades, a type of historical documentary has emerged that focuses on tightly circumscribed subjects, personal archives, and first-person perspectives. Efrén Cuevas categorizes these films as "microhistorical documentaries" and examines how they push cinema's capacity as a...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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New York :
Wallflower, an imprint of Columbia University Press,
[2022]
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| Colecção: | Nonfictions.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/cuev19596 |
Sumário:
- Introduction : film and history
- 1. Microhistory and documentary film
- 2. The archive in the microhistorical documentary
- 3. Péter Forgács's home movie chronicle of the twentieth century : The Maelstrom, Free Fall, and Class Lot
- 4. The incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II : Something Strong Within, A Family Gathering, From a Silk Cocoon, and History and Memory
- 5. Rithy Panh's autobiographical narrative of the Cambodian genocide : The Missing Picture
- 6. Identities and conflicts in Israel and Palestine : Israel: A Home Movie, For My Children, My Terrorist, My Land Zion, and A World Not Ours
- 7. The immigrant experience in Jonas Mekas's Lost, Lost, Lost
- Epilogue : Looking to the Future.