Documentary Across Disciplines

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Erika Balsom (Lecturer in Film Studies and in Liberal Arts, King's College London) Hila Peleg

Documentary Across Disciplines

Erika Balsom (Lecturer in Film Studies and in Liberal Arts, King's College London), Hila Peleg

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MIT Press
01 April 2016

Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Advertising & society

Series: The MIT Press

"Artists, filmmakers, art historians, poets, literary critics, anthropologists, theorists, and others, investigate one of the most vital areas of cultural practice- documentary.

Contemporary engagements with documentary are multifaceted and complex, reaching across disciplines to explore the intersections of politics and aesthetics, representation and reality, truth and illusion. Discarding the old notions of ""fly on the wall"" immediacy or quasi-scientific aspirations to objectivity, critics now understand documentary not as the neutral picturing of reality but as a way of coming to terms with reality through images and narrative. This book collects writings by artists, filmmakers, art historians, poets, literary critics, anthropologists, theorists, and others, to investigate one of the most vital areas of cultural practice- documentary. Their investigations take many forms-essays, personal memoirs, interviews, poetry.

Contemporary art turned away from the medium and toward the world, using photography and the moving image to take up global perspectives. Documentary filmmakers, meanwhile, began to work in the gallery context. The contributors consider the hybridization of art and film, and the ""documentary turn"" of contemporary art. They discuss digital technology and the ""crisis of faith"" caused by manipulation and generation of images, and the fading of the progressive social mandate that has historically characterized documentary. They consider invisible data and visible evidence; problems of archiving; and surveillance and biometric control, forms of documentation that call for ""informatic opacity"" as a means of evasion. Contributors Ariella Azoulay, Zach Blas, Christa Blümlinger, Stella Bruzzi, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Kris Fallon, Evgenia Giannouri, Ben Lerner, SylveÌre Lotringer, Antonia Majaca, Sohrab Mohebbi, Volker Pantenburg, Ve re na Paravel, Christopher Pinney, Ben Rivers, and Eyal Sivan Copublished with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin"

Edited by: Erika Balsom (Lecturer in Film Studies and in Liberal Arts King's College London), Hila Peleg
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780262529068
ISBN 10: 0262529068
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 01 April 2016
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Erika Balsom is a Lecturer in Film Studies and Liberal Arts at King's College London and the author of Exhibition Cinema in Contemporary Art. Hila Peleg is a curator and filmmaker based in Berlin and the founder and artistic director of the Berlin Documentary Forum.

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Erika Balsom (Lecturer in Film Studies and in Liberal Arts, King's College London), Hila Peleg

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