Filming history from below microhistorical documentaries

"Traditional historical documentaries strive to project a sense of objectivity, producing a top-down view of history that focuses on public events and personalities. In recent decades, in line with historiographical trends advocating "history from below," a different type of historica...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Cuevas, Efrén, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Wallflower [2022]
Colección:Nonfictions
Materias:
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: film and history
  • Microhistory and documentary film
  • The archive and the microhistorical documentary
  • Péter Forgács's home movie chronicle of the 20th century: The malestrom, Free fall, and Class lot
  • The incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II: Something strone within, A family gathering, From a silk cocoon, and History and memory
  • Rithy Panh's autobiographical narrative of the Cambodian Genocide: The missing picture
  • Identities and conflicts in Israel and Palestine: Isreal: a home movie, For my children, My terrorist, My land Zion, and A world not ours
  • The immigrant experience in Jonas Mekas's Lost, lost, lost
  • Epilogue: looking to the future.