The Documentary Impulse

Author : Stuart Franklin
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0714870676

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The Documentary Impulse by Stuart Franklin Pdf

Award-winning photographer Stuart Franklin's exploration of how we, as humans, are driven to visually document our experiences and the world around us. Stuart Franklin took one of the most powerful photographs of the twentieth century - the 'tank man' in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989. From his insightful position as a photographer, Franklin explores why we are driven to visually document our experiences and the world around us. He focuses on photography but traces this universal need through art, literature and science. Looking at photojournalism, war photography and work recording our culture, Franklin identifies some of its driving impulses: curiosity, outrage, reform and ritual; the search for evidence, for beauty, for therapy; and the immortalization of memory. As our understanding of 'documentary' continues to expand, Franklin considers photographic staging - where, perhaps, the future of the genre may lie: in search of truth over fact. "This book traces what I shall call the documentary impulse. Here I mean the passion to record, with fidelity, the moments we experience and wish to preserve, the things we witness and might want to reform; or simply the people, places or things we find remarkable... Photography (and journalism) practised respectfully has the power to educate us all towards a greater understanding and empathy towards others." —Stuart Franklin

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484559

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The Documentary Impulse in French Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kris Fallon
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520300934

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Where Truth Lies by Kris Fallon Pdf

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This boldly original book traces the evolution of documentary film and photography as they migrated onto digital platforms during the first decades of the twenty-first century. Kris Fallon examines the emergence of several key media forms—social networking and crowdsourcing, video games and virtual environments, big data and data visualization—and demonstrates the formative influence of political conflict and the documentary film tradition on their evolution and cultural integration. Focusing on particular moments of political rupture, Fallon argues that the ideological rifts of the period inspired the adoption and adaptation of newly available technologies to encourage social mobilization and political action, a function performed for much of the previous century by independent documentary film. Positioning documentary film and digital media side by side in the political sphere, Fallon asserts that “truth” now lies in a new set of media forms and discursive practices that implicitly shape the documentation of everything from widespread cultural spectacles like wars and presidential elections to more invisible or isolated phenomena like the Abu Ghraib torture scandal or the “fake news” debates of 2016.

Author : Ian Aitken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1561 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135206277

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Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film 3-Volume Set by Ian Aitken Pdf

The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumière brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1885) to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004). This Encyclopedia provides a resource that critically analyzes that history in all its aspects. Not only does this Encyclopedia examine individual films and the careers of individual film makers, it also provides overview articles of national and regional documentary film history. It explains concepts and themes in the study of documentary film, the techniques used in making films, and the institutions that support their production, appreciation, and preservation.

Author : Alison James
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192603487

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The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature by Alison James Pdf

The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature identifies a documentary impulse in French literature that emerges at the end of the nineteenth century and culminates in a proliferation of factual writings in the twenty-first. Focusing on the period bookended by these two moments, it highlights the enduring concern with factual reference in texts that engage either with current events or the historical archive. Specifically, it considers a set of ideas and practices centered on the conceptualization and use of documents. In doing so, it contests the widespread narrative that twentieth-century French literature abandons the realist enterprise, and argues that writers instead renegotiate the realist legacy outside, or at the margins of, the fictional space of the novel. Analyzing works by authors including Gide, Breton, Aragon, Yourcenar, Duras, and Modiano, the book defines a specific documentary mode of literary representation that records, assembles, and investigates material traces of reality. The document is a textual, visual, or material piece of evidence repurposed through its visual insertion, textual transcription, or description within a literary work. It is a fact, but it also becomes a figure, standing for literature's confrontation with the real. The documentary imagination involves a fantasy of direct access to a reality that speaks for itself. At the same time, it gives rise to concrete textual practices that open up new directions for literature, by interrogating the construction and interpretation of facts.

Author : Michael Denning
Publisher : Verso
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 1859841708

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The Cultural Front by Michael Denning Pdf

As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social movement by creating a cultural front. Disney cartoonists walked picket lines, and Billie Holiday sand 'Strange Fruit' at the left-wing cabaret, Café Society. Duke Ellington produced a radical musical, Jump for Joy, New York garment workers staged the legendary Broadway revue Pins and Needles, and Orson Welles and his Mercury players took their labor operas and anti-fascist Shakespeare to Hollywood and made Citizen Kane. A major reassessment of US cultural history, The Cultural Front is a vivid mural of this extraordinary upheaval which reshaped American culture in the twentieth century.

Author : Angela J. Aguayo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190676230

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Documentary Resistance by Angela J. Aguayo Pdf

Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media offers a new approach to understanding the networked capacity of documentary media to create public commons areas, crafting connections between unlikely interlocutors. In this process communities invest in the exchange of documentary moving image discourse around politics and social change. This book advances a new argument suggesting that documentary's capacity for social change is found in its ability to establish forms of collective identification and political agency capable of producing and sustaining activist media cultures. It advances the creation of a conceptual, theoretical, and historical space in which documentary and social change can be examined, drawing upon research in cinema, media, and communication studies as well as cultural theory to explore how political ideas move into participatory action. This book takes a distinctive approach, understanding how struggles for social justice are located, reflected, and represented on the documentary screen, but also in pre- and post-production processes. To address this living history, this project includes over sixty unpublished field interviews with documentary filmmakers, critics, funders, activists, and distributors.

Author : Sara Blair,Eric Rosenberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780520265653

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Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA by Sara Blair,Eric Rosenberg Pdf

"Coauthored by the literary scholar Sara Blair and the art historian Eric Rosenberg, this volume of the Defining Moments in American Photography series offers new ways to understand the work of the famous Farm Security Administration photographers by exploring an expanded and much more variable idea of the documentary than what New Dealers proposed. The coauthors follow in the line of scholars who have, on the one hand, looked critically at the FSA photography project and identified its goals, biases, contradictions, and ambivalences and, on the other hand, discerned strikingly independent directions among its photographers. But what distinguishes their work from that of others is their wrestling with a specific term often applied to the Depression era: trauma. If it was the case that documentary, as a genre, and FSA photographs, as an umbrella project, came to prominence during a time of trauma and in the hands of socially minded photographers was meant to address and publicize trauma, the coauthors of this volume seek to understand how trauma and photography mixed and how, in the volatility of that mixture, the competing ideas for documentary took shape. Among the key figures they study are some of the most beloved in American photography, including Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Aaron Siskind"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Zhen Zhang
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822340747

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The Urban Generation by Zhen Zhang Pdf

DIVAn anthology that explores film works by the "urban generation,"--filmmakers who operate outside of "mainstream" (officially sanctioned) Chinese cinema -- whose impact has been enormous./div

Author : Nathan Jurgenson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781786635464

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The Social Photo by Nathan Jurgenson Pdf

A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world. With the rise of the smart phone and social media, cameras have become ubiquitous, infiltrating nearly every aspect of social life. The glowing camera screen is the lens through which many of seek to communicate our experience. But our thinking about photography has been slow to catch-up; this major fixture of everyday life is still often treated in the terms of art or journalism. In The Social Photo, social theorist Nathan Jurgenson develops bold new ways of understanding photography in the age of social media and the new kinds of images that have emerged: the selfie, the faux-vintage photo, the self-destructing image, the food photo. Jurgenson shows how these devices and platforms have remade the world and our understanding of ourselves within it.

Author : Alison James
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198859680

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The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature by Alison James Pdf

Studying works by authors including Gide, Breton, Aragon, Yourcenar, Duras, and Modiano, this volume re-thinks twentieth-century French literature and engages with the question of distinctions between the factual and the fictional.

Author : Elizabeth Astrid Papazian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Aesthetics, Russian
ISBN : 087580389X

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Manufacturing Truth by Elizabeth Astrid Papazian Pdf

This work offers an examination of the relationship between early Soviet documentary and the areas of journalism, politics, and art in early Soviet culture.

Author : Monique Vescia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135493271

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Depression Glass by Monique Vescia Pdf

First Published in 2006. This is part of the literary critcism and cutlural theory collection. Situated within the larger narrative of the symbiosis between photography and modern poetry in America during the 1930s, each text examined by the author is a discrete object constituting a series of empirical statements, expressing certain empirical truths particular to its time and place.

Author : S. Andrew Granade
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580464956

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Harry Partch, Hobo Composer by S. Andrew Granade Pdf

During the Great Depression, Harry Partch rode the railways, following the fruit harvest across the country. From his experience among hoboes he found what he called ""a fountainhead of pure musical Americana."" Although he later wrote immense stage works for instruments of his own creation, he is still regularly called a hobo composer for the compositions that grew out of this period of his life. Yet few have questioned the label''s impact on his musical output, compositional life, and reception. Focusing on Partch the person alongside the cultural icon he represented, this study examines Par.

Author : Sara Blair,Joseph B. Entin,Franny Nudelman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469638706

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Remaking Reality by Sara Blair,Joseph B. Entin,Franny Nudelman Pdf

After World War II, U.S. documentarians engaged in a rigorous rethinking of established documentary practices and histories. Responding to the tumultuous transformations of the postwar era--the atomic age, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the emergence of the environmental movement, immigration and refugee crises, student activism, the globalization of labor, and the financial collapse of 2008--documentary makers increasingly reconceived reality as the site of social conflict and saw their work as instrumental to struggles for justice. Examining a wide range of forms and media, including sound recording, narrative journalism, drawing, photography, film, and video, this book is a daring interdisciplinary study of documentary culture and practice from 1945 to the present. Essays by leading scholars across disciplines collectively explore the activist impulse of documentarians who not only record reality but also challenge their audiences to take part in reality's remaking. In addition to the editors, the volume's contributors include Michael Mark Cohen, Grace Elizabeth Hale, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Jonathan Kahana, Leigh Raiford, Rebecca M. Schreiber, Noah Tsika, Laura Wexler, and Daniel Worden.