Cuevas Filming History from Below

Microhistorical Documentaries
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55157-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Nonfictions

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 producer of historical knowledge in new directions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cuevas, Efrén

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
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
Filmography
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Efrén Cuevas is a professor in the Department of Culture and Audiovisual Communication at the University of Navarra. He is coeditor of The Man Without the Movie Camera: The Cinema of Alan Berliner (2002) and Landscapes of the Self: The Cinema of Ross McElwee (2008).