Ten Years of Studies in Documentary Film
This volume will be a time capsule of the first 10 years of Studies in Documentary Film (20072016), tracing not only the development of the journal but also of documentary studies in the same period. Issues such as the rise of digital documentary forms and authorship, documentary activism, and the Chinese Independent documentary, as well as diverse political issues, will be raised in the introduction and evidenced in the articles. The chapters have been chosen for the various themes they raise in documentary studies but also the broader field of documentary scholarship (including publishing), and the rise of the internet as a powerful force in documentary studies.
Deane Williams is Associate Professor of Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He was editor of the refereed international journal Studies in Documentary Film; and author of The Cinema of Sean Penn: In and Out of Place (2015), editor of The Grierson Effect (with Zo Druick, 2014), and editor of Australian Film Theory and Criticism (3 vols.) (with Noel King and Con Verevis, 20136).
Ten Years of Studies in Documentary Film
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Deane Williams
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Contents
Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Studies in Documentary Film. When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Testimony in the umbra of trauma: film and video portraits of survival
Janet Walker
Studies in Documentary Film, volume 1, issue 2 (2007), pp. 91104
Chapter 2
The field of digital documentary: a challenge to documentary theorists
Craig Hight
Studies in Documentary Film, volume 2, issue 1 (2008), pp. 37
Chapter 3
Two Laws still: notes on resonance
Jason De Santolo
Studies in Documentary Film, volume 2, issue 2 (2008), pp. 185189
Chapter 4
Documenting the political: some issues
John Corner
Studies in Documentary Film, volume 3, issue 2 (2009), pp. 113129
Chapter 5
Reassembling the nation: Iraq in Fragments and the acoustics of occupation
Selmin Kara
Studies in Documentary Film, volume 3, issue 3 (2009), pp. 259274
Chapter 6
Documentary Filmmaking in the Postmodern Age: Errol Morris & The Fog of Truth
Lucia Ricciardelli
Studies in Documentary Film, volume 4, issue 1 (2010), pp. 3550
Chapter 7
Interactive documentary: setting the field
Judith Aston and Sandra Gaudenzi
Studies in Documentary Film, volume 6, issue 2 (2012), pp. 125139
Chapter 8
What is documentary mise-en-scne? Coutinhos mannerism and Salless mauvaise conscience
Ferno Pessoa Ramos
Studies in Documentary Film, volume 8, issue 2 (2014), pp. 143155
Chapter 9
The poetic mode as depiction: sense-value and Gideon Koppels sleep furiously
Dara Waldron
Studies in Documentary Film, volume 8, issue 2 (2014), pp. 116129
Chapter 10
Personal camera as public intervention: remembering the Cultural Revolution in Chinese independent documentary films
Jing Meng
Studies in Documentary Film, volume 9, issue 2 (2015), pp. 143160
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Notes on Contributors
Judith Aston is Senior Lecturer in Filmmaking at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Her work explores new ways to convey ideas and experiences at the intersection between immersive filmmaking, live participation and creative technology. She also produces and directs, most recently for live multimedia events such as The Russian Winter and the Bristol Proms, and for her Theatre Within a Theatre immersive film installation.
John Corner is Visiting Professor in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. He is also the editor of the journal Media, Culture and Society. His most recent books include Political Culture and Media Genre (with Kay Richardson and Katy Parry, 2012), Theorising Media: Power, Form and Subjectivity (2011), and Public Issue Television: World in Action 196398 (with Peter Goddard and Kay Richardson, 2010).
Jason De Santolo is Senior Researcher, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is a descendent of Garrwa and Barrunggam peoples. Over the past 15 years he has been exploring collaborative research/media practices for communicating sustainable autonomy with a focus on video and [new] media. As a creative producer, he has directed, produced, and collaborated on various cutting edge projects in Australia and Aotearoa/NZ.
Sandra Gaudenzi teaches on the MA Interactive Media course at the London College of Media, and is studying for a PhD in Interactive Documentaries at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She also convenes the i-Docs symposium in Bristol, UK, the first conference dedicated solely to interactive documentaries. Her research interests include interactive documentary, interactive narrative, mobile video, locative media and augmented reality.
Craig Hight is Associate Professor in Creative Industries at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Formerly based at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, his research draws from a background of study and research in the fields of computer science, political science and media studies. He is the author of
