American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age
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American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age

Depictions of War in Burns, Moore, and Morris

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eBook - ePub

American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age

Depictions of War in Burns, Moore, and Morris

About this book

American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age examines the recent challenges to the conventions of realist documentary through the lens of war documentary films by Ken Burns, Michael Moore, and Errol Morris. During the twentieth century, the invention of new technologies of audiovisual representation such as cinema, television, video, and digital media have transformed the modes of historical narration and with it forced historians to assess the impact of new visual technologies on the construction of history. This book investigates the manner in which this contemporary Western "crisis" in historical narrative is produced by a larger epistemological shift in visual culture. Ricciardelli uses the theme of war as depicted in these directors' films to focus her study and look at the model(s) of national identity that Burns, Morris, and Moore shape through their depictions of US military actions. She examines how postcolonial critiques of historicism and the advent of digitization have affected the narrative structure of documentary film and the shaping of historical consciousness through cinematic representation.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781135036133
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Art & Politics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. PART I The Realist Documentary Tradition in the Postmodern Age
  7. PART II Audiovisual Historical Narration in the Age of Digitization
  8. PART III American Documentary Filmmaking in the Postmodern Age
  9. Conclusion: The Demise of American Realist Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age?
  10. References
  11. Index