Critical Distance in Documentary Media
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Critical Distance in Documentary Media

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eBook - ePub

Critical Distance in Documentary Media

About this book

This collection of essays presents new formulations of ideas and practices within documentary media that respond critically to the multifaceted challenges of our age. As social media, augmented reality, and interactive technologies play an increasing role in the documentary landscape, new theorizations are needed to account for how such media both represents recent political, socio-historical, environmental, and representational shifts, and challenges the predominant approaches by promoting new critical sensibilities. The contributions to this volume approach the idea of "critical distance" in a documentary context and in subjects as diverse as documentary exhibitions, night photography, drone imagery, installation art, mobile media, nonhuman creative practices, sound art and interactive technologies. It is essential reading for scholars, practitioners and students working in fields such as documentary studies, film studies, cultural studies, contemporary art history and digital mediastudies.

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Yes, you can access Critical Distance in Documentary Media by Gerda Cammaer, Blake Fitzpatrick, Bruno Lessard, Gerda Cammaer,Blake Fitzpatrick,Bruno Lessard in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Film & Video. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9783319967660
eBook ISBN
9783319967677
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. Introduction: Critically Distant
  4. Indexicality in the Age of the Sensor and Metadata
  5. Shot in the Dark: Nocturnal Philosophy and Night Photography
  6. Approaches to Xianchang: Documenting the Real in Post-socialist China
  7. Ai Weiwei: Grafting as a Documentary Tactic in Art
  8. Unsatisfactory Devices: Legacy and the Undocumentable in Art
  9. From Above: Critical Distance, Aerial Views, and Counter-Images
  10. Phantom Rides as Images of the World Unfolding
  11. Mobile Media: A Reliable Documentary Witness?
  12. Redefining the “Document”: Social-Media Photographs as Narrative, Performance, Habitude
  13. Instagram as Archive: Constructing Experimental Documentary Narratives from Everyday Moments
  14. That Seagull Stole My Camera (and My Shot)!: Overlapping Metaphorical and Physical Distances in the Human-Animal-Camera Triad
  15. Re-placing the Urban Soundscape: Performative Documentary Research in Vancouver’s False Creek
  16. From Voice to Listening: Becoming Implicated Through Multi-linear Documentary
  17. From Critical Distance to Critical Intimacy: Interactive Documentary and Relational Media
  18. Back Matter