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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 historical documentary has emerged, focusing on tightly circumscribed subjects, personal archives, and first-person perspectives. Efrn Cuevas categorizes these films as microhistorical documentaries and examines how they push cinemas capacity as a producer of historical knowledge in new directions.
Cuevas pinpoints the key features of these documentaries, identifying their parallels with written microhistory: a reduced scale of observation, a central role given to human agency, a conjectural approach to the use of archival sources, and a reliance on narrative structures. Microhistorical documentaries also use tools specific to film to underscore the affective dimension of historical narratives, often incorporating autobiographical and essayistic perspectives, and highlighting the role of the protagonists personal memories in the reconstruction of the past. These films generally draw from family archives, with an emphasis on snapshots and home movies.
Filming History from Below examines works including Pter Forgcss films dealing with the Holocaust such as The Maelstrom and Free Fall; documentaries about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Rithy Panhs work on the Cambodian genocide; films about the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War such as A Family Gathering and History and Memory; and Jonas Mekass chronicle of migration in his diary film Lost, Lost, Lost.

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Nonfictionsis dedicated to expanding and deepening the range of contemporary documentary studies. It aims to engage in the theoretical conversation about documentaries, open new areas of scholarship, and recover lost or marginalized histories.

Other titles in the Nonfictionsseries:

Direct Cinema: Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixtiesby Dave Saunders

Vision On: Film, Television, and the Arts in Britainby John Wyver

The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory, and Visual CultureEdited by Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas

Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean RouchEdited by Joram ten Brink

Films of Fact: A History of Science in Documentary Films and Televisionby Timothy Boon

Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary PracticeEdited by Alan Grossman and ine OBrien

Documentary Display: Re-Viewing Nonfiction Film and Videoby Keith Beattie

Chavez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: A Case Study of Politics and the Mediaby Rod Stoneman

The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Filmby Laura Rascaroli

Playing to the Camera: Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinemaby Thomas Cohen

The Cinema of Me: The Self and Subjectivity in First Person DocumentaryEdited by Alisa Lebow

Killer Images: Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of ViolenceEdited by Joram ten Brink and Joshua Oppenheimer

Documenting Cityscapes: Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Filmby Iv n Villarmea lvarez

Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentaryby Paolo Magagnoli

Mediating Mobility: Visual Anthropology in the Age of Migrationby Steffen K hn

Projecting Race: Postwar America, Civil Rights, and Documentary Filmby Stephen Charbonneau

The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, UtopiaEdited by Elizabeth Papazian and Caroline Eades

I-Docs: The Evolving Practices of Interactive DocumentaryEdited by Judith Aston, Sandra Gaudenzi, and Mandy Rose

Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentaryby Raya Morag

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